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AMC and Hiking Photos
Party in Madison Hut Photographer, Ralph C. Larrabee standing at rear Larrabee Collection, Photographs, Special Collections, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH
Jam Logs near Fuller Farm Guy L. Shorey Collection, Mount Washington Observatory
AMC Camp for trail builders Larrabee Collection, Photographs, Special Collections, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH
Mt. Washington Trek, 1905 Larrabee Collection, Photographs, Special Collections, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH
The Weeks Act of 1911
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature”
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