• Ben Kilburn and Frank Fifield set up a darkroom on a foot bridge across the Flume and took up residence in the summer to make photographs of the tourists who came by train and stage to see the great boulder lodged in the Flume.
    The Photographer's Cabin
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  • The Hikers
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  • The boulder was a well-known attraction for the new touring class.  But in 1883 the side of Mount Liberty, which had been clear-cut, slid into the lake above the Flume Gorge in Franconia Notch; and cascading down through the Flume, it blasted out the great boulder, never to be found among the many many tons of material that poured through.
    Above this spot was suspended a great boulder
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  • Many groups posed with the boulder in the background.  Most of the old images are from the stereocards which were all the rage, and a leading industry in the White Mountains.  The gentleman in the center here is identified on the back of the stereocard, in pencil, as Thos. T. Bailey.  Otherwise unknown.
    Thos. T. Bailey Group
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  • The Visionary
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  • The stereograph in this picture is dated 1883.  The flood that blew out the great boulder was that spring, so thi is the first reconstruction.
    After the Flood
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