General View from the American Side (Niagara Falls), c. 1860

Not on View

Medium

stereoscopic glass transparency

Dimensions

image (each): 6.5 × 6 cm (2 9/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
plate: 8.5 × 17.3 cm (3 3/8 × 6 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2017.79.2

Artists / Makers

Frederick Langenheim (artist) American, born Germany, 1809 - 1879

Image Use

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Inscription

vertical along left edge in gold ink: from the American side.; center vertical: F. LANGENHEIM’S PATENT, Nov. 19, 1850.; vertical along right edge: GENERAL VIEW,; across bottom: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by F. Langenheim, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Provenance

Russell Norton, New Haven, CT; NGA purchase, 2017.

Associated Names

Norton, Russell