Niagara Falls

Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843–62)
Possibly by: Platt D. Babbitt (American, died in 1879)

about 1855

Medium/Technique Photograph, daguerreotype

Dimensions Plate: 16.4 x 21.4 cm (6 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of W. G. Russell Allen

Accession Number54.715

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPhotographs

Marks Right edge, near corner, plate maker mark: "H.B./ Bear/ 40" (only botttom half of mark exists). Spirit of Fact #17.

ProvenanceWilliam G. Russell Allen (1882-1955, Boston); his gift to MFA, June 10,1954.