[Niagara Falls] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Niagara Falls], [ca. 1854] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f9/f9229efd6e38-L.webp)
(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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[Niagara Falls] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few places drew more nineteenth-century visitors than Niagara Falls, and this ambrotype, dated to about 1854, shows the cataract just as the glass-plate process was spreading across the country. Ambrotypes used a collodion image on glass set over a dark backing, and they cost less than daguerreotypes, which helped make portraits and views of famous sights available to ordinary buyers. The Library of Congress has published the picture in *Viewpoints* (1975) and *Eyes of the Nation* (1997), and it was included in the *American Treasures* exhibition of 2004 and 2005.
| Created / published | [ca. 1854] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : ambrotype. |
| Genre | Ambrotypes 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 106. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-05. Unprocessed; in Ambrotype Cabinet. |
| Subjects | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,130 × 884 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218476 |
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