Middle Mountain, North Conway, N.H.

Nathan W. Pease was a prominent American photographer who worked in North Conway, New Hampshire, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born in 1836 in Fryeburg, Maine, and began his career as a photographer in the early 1860s. Pease was known for his landscape and portrait photography, and his images of the White Mountains of New Hampshire were particularly popular. He had a studio in North Conway for many years and his work was widely exhibited and published. Pease was also active in the community, serving as a selectman and a member of the local school board. He died in 1918 at the age of 82, leaving a legacy of beautiful and iconic images of the New England landscape.