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Niagara Falls – Vintage Print

Niagara Falls, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
Niagara Falls, [between 1880 and 1897]. Historic photograph from the Niagara Falls collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Niagara Falls, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Taken from Prospect Point, the lookout on the American side of the gorge, this view shows the falls from a spot that drew sightseers throughout the late nineteenth century. The image survives as a 5 x 8 inch glass dry plate negative, a format that had largely replaced wet collodion plates by the 1880s and let photographers work with less equipment in the field. The catalog attribution to William Henry Jackson, a well-known landscape photographer whose negatives later passed to the Detroit Publishing Company, places it within a broader effort to document American scenery for travelers and collectors. Niagara, which straddles the border with Canada, was among the most photographed natural sites of its day.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 8 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898); title in catalogue continues: fromProspect Point. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 07882. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsWaterfalls.United States--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.Canada--Ontario--Niagara Falls.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 619 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76293

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