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Niagara Falls from Prospect Point. Niagara County, New York, circa 1855.

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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 [...]

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U.S. Geological Survey
Author :
Gilbert, G. K.

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name photoLibrary ggk02923
number photoLibrary 12399
batch photoLibrary btch175
number_in_book photoLibrary 2923

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