Niagara Falls from Prospect Point. Niagara County, New York, circa 1855.
Dates
Date Taken
1855
Summary
Album caption: The America Fall, Niagara, from Prospect Point. Copy of daguerreotype made in 1854 or 1855. Niagara County, New York. Notes on album caption: Published as Plate 9 in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 306 (1907.) Index card: Gilbert, G. K. 2923 - Niagara Falls from Prospect Point. Niagara County, New York. 1854-1855. Note: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 306, Rate of recessin of Niagara falls, acompanied by a report on the survey of the crest, Plate 9, page 19, "The earliest good daguerreotype of the American Fall to which I have been able to assign a date is reproduced in Pl. IX. The gentleman who loaned me the daguerreotype appears in the picture as a child, and was able by that circumstance to fortify [...]
Summary
Album caption: The America Fall, Niagara, from Prospect Point. Copy of daguerreotype made in 1854 or 1855. Niagara County, New York.
Notes on album caption: Published as Plate 9 in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 306 (1907.)
Index card: Gilbert, G. K. 2923 - Niagara Falls from Prospect Point. Niagara County, New York. 1854-1855.
Note: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 306, Rate of recessin of Niagara falls, acompanied by a report on the survey of the crest, Plate 9, page 19, "The earliest good daguerreotype of the American Fall to which I have been able to assign a date is reproduced in Pl. IX. The gentleman who loaned me the daguerreotype appears in the picture as a child, and was able by that circumstance to fortify his memory and say that the view was taken in 1854 or 1855."
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Gilbert, G.K. Collection.
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