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Hugh Lee Pattinson 
Niagara Falls 
1840, April 
  
Daguerreotype, whole plate 
6.5 x 8.5 ins 
  
Newcastle University Library - Special Collections 
 
LL/33473 
  
Hugh Lee Pattinson was a British industrialist and metallurgist who visited Canada on a business trip soon after the Daguerreotype method was announced in 1839. This photograph was taken at Niagara Falls and is considered to be amongst the earliest photographs, if not the earliest, taken in Canada. Eight Daguerreotypes by Pattinson are retained by Newcastle University Library.
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/collections/daguerreotypes/
 
"Canada's First Daguerreian Image", Graham W. Garrett, History of Photography, Issue 20-2, Summer 1996, 101-103 
 

 
  
 
  
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