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Platt D. Babbitt
Admiral and Officers of the Russian Fleet - Point View - Niagara Falls
1863, October
Stereoview, glass
Private collection of Richard O. Titus
LL/42882
Rear Admiral S. Lessoffsky and officers of the Imperial Russian Navy.
New York Times, October 28, 1863
THE RUSSIAN EXCURSION TO NIAGARA.; Last Views of the Falls The Russians Photographed Their Departure from Niagara Stoppage at Buffalo and Elimira
Scenes on the Route House Again.
dateline = ELMIRA, N.Y., Monday, Oct. 26, 1863.
Before leaving Niagara Falls, this morning, the officers of the Russian fleet went down in a body from the Cataract House to the stairs leading to the ferry at the foot of the American Falls, where a photographic view of the entire party was taken, with the cataract in the background. It was a beautiful and cloudless morning, and, for the first time since the guests have been at the falls, a brilliant-hued rain bow shot forth from the mists of the cataract, and mounting the early sunbeams, pointed upward, like a painted horn, to the sky. The artist succeeded it getting an excellent negative, and the Russians are delighted at the prospect of having such a splendid souvenir of their visit to Niagara to transmit to their friends at home.
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