Otto Hillig – Catskills Photographer

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Otto Hillig portrait of a woman in a white dress sitting on a horse.

Woman, white dress, sitting on horse, outside building

Otto Hillig can be considered one of the great photographers in Catskills history. Arriving from Germany in the United States as a poor teenage immigrant he took on a series of odd jobs before developing a prosperous photography business at his adopted hometown in the village of Liberty in Sullivan County, New York. He operated a well-regarded portrait studio in the village, extensively photographed the landscapes of the region and was considered an earlier pioneer of aerial photography.

The postmark on the reverse side shows that the postcard was mailed in 1907.