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lbert Alletag—a New York City butler who dabbled in photography—captured this early-20th-century Whiteface Mountain resident with “keep out” and “hands off” scrawled on his cabin. The photo—perhaps cheekily titled —appears in (Syracuse University Press), by Sally Svenson, along with the stories and work of more than 200

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