View west from the Lead Mine Bridge at Shelburne, N.H.

This reproduction of a print originally published by Currier & Ives about 1870, as part of the "American River Scenery" series, is identified as "View on the Androscoggin Me.," though it actually depicts a mid-nineteenth century vista looking west from the Lead Mine Bridge at Shelburne, New Hampshire. Of this famous view, a writer in the Boston Traveller in 1897 stated, "It is one of the loveliest pictures not only in the White Mountain region, but anywhere in the world, so impressive is the beauty of the river and the island and the bold symmetry of the mountains." The construction of a power plant and water control dam by the Brown Company early in the last century submerged the islands and changed the view, though the bare peaks of Mts. Madison, Jefferson and Washington still tower grandly in the background.