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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Niagara Falls
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Niagara Falls

Artist Charles Bierstadt (American, 1819-1903)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1867-1873
MediumAlbumen print (carte-de-visite)
DimensionsOverall: 2 1/2 × 4 3/16 in. (6.4 × 10.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Scott and Karen Wolff
Object number97.4
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis photograph shows the pavilion that Platt D. Babbitt used for making daquerreotypes of the falls. Babbitt controlled the rights to the location from which the best photographs of the falls could be made, and this image clearly shows Babbitt's operation.

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