Manufacturer: Carr China Company
User: Higby Camp
Date of platter: Unknown

The Higby Family

18,000-word Dictionary

Box made by Leah Lear, a Higby family descendent

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Notes: Higby Camp was located on Big Moose Lake in New York's Adirondack Mountains. It was built in the 1880s by James H. Higby, who was a "guide and camp builder," according to "Big Moose Lake New York: in vintage postcards," by William L. Scheffler and Frank Carey.

Higby was one of the first camps built on Big Moose Lake.

The original camp burned in 1921 and was rebuilt. The place was apparently quite a compound, with online references to Higby Camp, Higby Lodge, Higby Club, Higby Subdivision and even a Higby Playhouse. What is apparent is that a lodge was built in addition to the original hunting and fishing camps made of roughhewn log cabins.

An entry on this website written by a Higby descendent said the camp was sold in the 1970s.

Leah Lear, a Higby family descendant, recently shared photos of a family portrait as well as a leather-bound Higby Camp 18,000-word dictionary. As part of a book arts college course, Leah made a lovely decorative box to hold the dictionary and to help preserve it for future generations (all shown above).

White body green-line platter with the Higby Camp logo at the top of the rim between the two green-line pinstripes. The logo consists of a drawing of a moose head between two sheaves of wheat tied with ribbons and bows. Below the drawing is a simplified drawing of water with a sailboat on the left and lighthouse on the right. At the bottom are the words "Big Moose, N.Y." in capital block letters. Over the top of the drawing are the arched words "Higby Camp" in capital block letters. The entire logo is in green matching the green lines on the rest of the platter.

Source:
Ancestry.com/boards

Contributors:
Susan and Ed Phillips