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| 1. |  | Unidentified artist 1877, 18 August [A couple being photographed at Niagara Falls] Magazine illustration Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus Harper's Weekly, 18 August 1877 |
| 2. |  | Hugh Lee Pattinson 1840, April Niagara Falls Daguerreotype, whole plate 6.5 x 8.5 ins Newcastle University Library - Special Collections 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. "Canada's First Daguerreian Image", Graham W. Garrett, History of Photography, Issue 20-2, Summer 1996, 101-103 |
| 3. |  | Unidentified photographer 1845 (ca) [Falls of Niagara] Calotype St. Andrews University Library, Special Collections / The Photographic Collection Record: ALB-6-96-1 |
| 4. |  | Unidentified photographer 1848 The Tioga, a Steam Locomotive on a Trestle Bridge, with Niagara Falls in the Background Daguerreotype, stereo National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Photographic History Collection, Image No. AFS 148 |
| 5. |  | Southworth & Hawes 1850 (ca) Niagara Falls from the Canadian Side Daguerreotype 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 ins) Metropolitan Museum of Art Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937, Accession Number: 37.14.7 |
| 6. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1854 Niagara Falls Daguerreotype, hand-coloured National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Photographic History Collection, Image No. AFS 141 |
| 7. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1850-1860 Niagara Falls from Prospect Point Daguerreotype, whole plate 16.6 x 21.7 cm (plate) 13.5 x 18.6 cm (image, sight) National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada (no. 30584), Gift of Phyllis Lambert, Montreal, 1988 |
| 8. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1855 Tourists Viewing Niagara Falls from Prospect Point Daguerreotype 10.70 x 13.90 cm National Galleries of Scotland Courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland (Accession no. PGP R 14), Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell 1985 |
| 9. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1853, July [Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River] Daguerreotype Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division DAG no. 1165 Library of Congress description: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664370 [Accessed: 17 July 2010] Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river's strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths. The daguerreotype shows the third man, stranded on a log which had jammed between two rocks. He weathered the current for eighteen hours before succumbing to the river. The image is an early example of a news photograph. Charles Richard Weld, A Vacation Tour in the United States and Canada (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855), p.171-172 I was shown the scene of the last catastrophe, just above the American fall. It is a small rocky islet to which an unfortunate man clung with terrible tenacity for three days. He had been drawn into the rapids, and was on the point of being swept over the falls, when his course was arrested by the little island. Far better would it have been for him had he not met with this obstruction; for his agony during those three long days and nights was fearful. All attempts to save him were abortive; and at the close of the third day, being unable to cling longer to the rocks, he was carried over the cataract. An American daguerreotypist reaped a rich harvest by taking impressions of the poor fellow during his agony. Avery 1853 William Dean Howells I. All night long they heard in the houses beside the shore, Heard, or seemed to hear, through the multitudinous roar, Out of the hell of the rapids as 'twere a lost soul's cries,-- Heard and could not believe; and the morning mocked their eyes, Showing, where wildest and fiercest the waters leaped up and ran Raving round him and past, the visage of a man Clinging, or seeming to cling, to the trunk of a tree that, caught Fast in the rocks below, scarce out of the surges raught. Was it a life, could it be, to yon slender hope that clung? Shrill, above all the tumult the answering terror rung. II. Under the weltering rapids a boat from the bridge is drowned, Over the rocks the lines of another are tangled and wound; And the long, fateful hours of the morning have wasted soon, As it had been in some blessed trance, and now it is noon. Hurry, now with the raft! But O, build it strong and stanch, And to the lines and treacherous rocks look well as you launch! Over the foamy tops of the waves, and their foam-sprent sides, Over the hidden reefs, and through the embattled tides, Onward rushes the raft, with many a lurch and leap,-- Lord! if it strike him loose from the hold he scarce can keep! No! through all peril unharmed, it reaches him harmless at last, And to its proven strength he lashes his weakness fast. Now, for the shore! But steady, steady, my men, and slow; Taut, now, the quivering lines; now slack; and so, let her go! Thronging the shores around stand the pitying multitude; Wan as his own are their looks, and a nightmare seems to brood Heavy upon them, and heavy the silence hangs on all, Save for the rapids' plunge, and the thunder of the fall. But on a sudden thrills from the people still and pale, Chorussing his unheard despair, a desperate wail: Caught on a lurking point of rock it sways and swings, Sport of the pitiless waters, the raft to which he clings. III. All the long afternoon it idly swings and sways; And on the shore the crowd lifts up its hands and prays: Lifts to heaven and wrings the hands so helpless to save, Prays for the mercy of God on him whom the rock and the wave Battle for, fettered betwixt them, and who, amidst their strife, Struggles to help his helpers, and fights so hard for his life,-- Tugging at rope and at reef, while men weep and women swoon. Priceless second by second, so wastes the afternoon, And it is sunset now; and another boat and the last Down to him from the bridge through the rapids has safely passed. IV. Wild through the crowd comes flying a man that nothing can stay, Maddening against the gate that is locked athwart his way. "No! we keep the bridge for them that can help him. You, Tell us, who are you?" "His brother!" "God help you both! Pass through." Wild, with wide arms of imploring he calls aloud to him, Unto the face of his brother, scarce seen in the distance dim; But in the roar of the rapids his fluttering words are lost As in a wind of autumn the leaves of autumn are tossed. And from the bridge he sees his brother sever the rope Holding him to the raft, and rise secure in his hope; Sees all as in a dream the terrible pageantry,-- Populous shores, the woods, the sky, the birds flying free; Sees, then, the form,--that, spent with effort and fasting and fear, Flings itself feebly and fails of the boat that is lying so near,-- Caught in the long-baffled clutch of the rapids, and rolled and hurled Headlong on to the cataract's brink, and out of the world. |
| 10. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1860 (ca) Niagara Falls Ambrotype, whole plate, ruby glass Charles Schwartz Ltd Charles Schwartz Ltd. (#8257) |
| 11. |  | Platt D. Babbitt n.d. Whirlpool Scenery - Niagara River Glass stereo view Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 294) |
| 12. |  | Platt D. Babbitt n.d. Suspension Bridge over Niagara River Glass stereo view Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 295) |
| 13. |  | Platt D. Babbitt n.d. Suspension Bridge over Niagara River Glass stereo view Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 296) |
| 14. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1860, 17 Sept Prince of Wales at Prospect Point (Niagara Falls) Stereoview, detail Private collection of Richard O. Titus The movement within the crowd on the right hand side gives an indication of the length of the exposure. |
| 15. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1863, 25 October (probably) Admiral and officers of the Russian fleet. Point View. Niagara Falls Stereoview, detail Private collection of Richard O. Titus During the American Civil War the Russian Government sent two naval squadrons to the US to demonstrate support for the Northern course. This expedition was also a strategic move to put pressure on England and France to be careful in their assistance to the South. |
| 16. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1860, 15 August Signor Farini's Rope Ascension over Niagara River Stereoview, glass Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc |
| 17. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1860, 15 August Signor Farini's Rope Ascension over Niagara River (detail) Stereoview, glass, detail Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc |
| 18. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1855 (ca) Tourists Viewing Niagara Falls from Prospect Point Daguerreotype, whole plate, with applied color George Eastman Museum |
| 19. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1855 (ca) Vue des chutes du Niagara Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate Sotheby's - Paris Courtesy of Sotheby's Paris (Photographs, Fri, 20 Nov 09, 4:00 PM, PF9027, Lot 138) |
| 20. |  | Southworth & Hawes 1856 The Niagara Suspension Bridge Daguerreotype, full plate 21.5 x 16.5 cm George Eastman Museum © 2004 George Eastman House |
| 21. |  | Southworth & Hawes 1855, Mar 8 The Niagara Suspension Bridge Daguerreotype, full plate 21.5 x 16.5 cm George Eastman Museum © 2004 George Eastman House |
| 22. |  | W. & F. Langenheim n.d. Niagara Falls, "Edge of Horseshoe Falls" Stereographs Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#15 / 214) |
| 23. |  | Unidentified photographer 1850s (ca) Niagara Falls Daguerreotype, whole plate Lee Gallery Courtesy of Lee Gallery (X1614) |
| 24. |  | William England n.d. No. 87 - the Niagara Suspension Bridge, interior view [North American Series by William England] Stereocard Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#13 / 307) Taken for the London Stereoscopic Co. |
| 25. |  | William England n.d. No. 150 - the Niagara Suspension Bridge, U. S. [North American Series by William England] Stereocard Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#13 / 308) Taken for the London Stereoscopic Co. |
| 26. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist n.d. A carriage in front of Niagara Falls Ambrotype, whole plate Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#17 / 137) |
| 27. |  | J. McPherson n.d. Blondin crossing Niagara Falls on the high wire Stereoview, glass, detail Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics |
| 28. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist n.d. Portrait of a man seated in an Adirondack style chair with Niagara Falls in the background Ambrotype, whole plate Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#15 / 125) |
| 29. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. [A couple being photographed at Niagara Falls] Ambrotype Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus |
| 30. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist n.d. Niagara Falls Carte de visite Private collection of Laddy Kite |
| 31. |  | Alexander Henderson 1860s (ca) Falls of Niagara Albumen print, from wet collodion negative 19.00 x 24.20 cm (7 7/16 x 9 1/2 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art John L. Severance Fund, Accession No.: 1993.25 |
| 32. |  | William Notman 1869 Horseshoe Falls from above, Niagara, ON Silver salts on glass - Wet collodion process 20 x 25 cm McCord Stewart Museum © McCord Museum, I-37300 The camera obscura is shown down by the water. |
| 33. |  | George Barker 1888 (ca) Niagara in Summer, from Below Combination print 50.2 x 41.9 cm (19 3/4 x 16 1/2 in) American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment |
| 34. |  | George Barker 1880 (ca) 9. Rock of Ages Cave of the Winds Albumen print 9.5 x 7.75 in (24 x 20 cm) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs |
| 35. |  | George Barker 1888 (ca) The Falls in Winter Albumen print 41.3 x 48.2 cm (16 1/4 x 19 in) American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment |
| 36. |  | George Barker 1890 (ca) Niagara in Winter Printing out paper 7.75 x 9.75 in (20 x 25 cm) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs |
| 37. |  | George Barker 1890 (ca) Niagara Falls, Snow Shed Albumen print 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 ins Stephen Bulger Gallery Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery This photograph was included in the exhibition "O Canada" at the Stephen Bulger Gallery (January 23 - February 27, 2010). |
| 38. |  | George Barker 1895 Samuel John Dixon Crossing Niagara Falls Below the Great Cantilever Bridge Albumen prints, stereoscopic 8.10 x 7.70 cm National Galleries of Scotland Courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland (Accession no. PGP R 860), Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell 1985 |
| 39. |  | George Barker n.d. [Niagara Falls showing a distant view of a wire walker] [Premium Views by Geo. Barker] Stereocard, cabinet size Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 288) |
| 40. |  | B.R. Leech 1890 (ca) Pair of Niagara Falls Folk Art Souvenir Frames with inserted Carte de Visites Albumen print, mounted to Carte de Visite (trimmed) 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 ins Stephen Bulger Gallery Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery This photograph was included in the exhibition "O Canada" at the Stephen Bulger Gallery (January 23 - February 27, 2010). |
| 41. |  | Photo Specialty Co. 1911 Bobby Leach and his Barrel Gelatin silver print, Real photo postcard 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins Stephen Bulger Gallery Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery This photograph was included in the exhibition "O Canada" at the Stephen Bulger Gallery (January 23 - February 27, 2010). |
| 42. |  | Unidentified photographer 1880s Three people with a Niagara Falls background Tintype, 1/4 plate, multiple exposure Private collection of Andrew Daneman It is unclear how this photograph was created. |
| 43. |  | Unidentified photographer 1900 Two men in Stanley Steamer runabout at Niagara Falls with painted backdrop Tintype, 1/2 plate Private collection of Andrew Daneman |
| 44. |  | J. Zybach & Co. 1900 (ca) Undaunted by the Waves Printing out print 9 x 7 in (print) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs - Auction (Skylight Gallery Catalog 28,April 30, 2009, #81) Zybach seems to have allowed tourists to acquire a lasting Niagara remembrance in the form of a dramatic image of churning waters with their own image (suitable cloaked in waterproof clothing) artificially inserted into the picture. However Zybach's technique was not perfect and leaves the visitor's image partially surrounded by a halo-like glow and partially faded out at edges. A whimsical look on the tourist's face appears to indicate that he takes the situation with a proper attitude of humor. (Christopher Wahren) |
| 45. |  | J. Zybach & Co. 1900 (ca) Undaunted by the Waves (detail) Printing out print 9 x 7 in (print) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs - Auction (Skylight Gallery Catalog 28,April 30, 2009, #81) Zybach seems to have allowed tourists to acquire a lasting Niagara remembrance in the form of a dramatic image of churning waters with their own image (suitable cloaked in waterproof clothing) artificially inserted into the picture. However Zybach's technique was not perfect and leaves the visitor's image partially surrounded by a halo-like glow and partially faded out at edges. A whimsical look on the tourist's face appears to indicate that he takes the situation with a proper attitude of humor. (Christopher Wahren) |
| 46. |  | Unidentified photographer 1930s (ca) Rapids below Niagara Falls Gelatin silver print Private collection of John Toohey |
| 47. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1953 (ca) Film poster for Niagara starring Marilyn Monroe (1953) Film poster Source requested [Information requested on the source] |
| 48. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1845 Niagara Falls Book page Google Books Charles Lyell Travels in North America, in the years 1841-2: with Geological Observations on The United States, Canada and Nova Scotia, Two Volumes (London: John Murray, 1845), Chap.XIX, p.92. The Father Louis Hennepin "discovered" and described Niagara Falls in 1677 although there are several other claims for this honor. Sharpe's London Journal, Vol.X, p.50 adds the following with an incorrect spelling of Father Hennepin: Sir C. Lyell, in his recently published Travels, observes : "The Falls of Niagara, though continually in motion, have all the effects of a fixed and unvarying feature in the landscape; and, however strange it may seem, some Daguerreotype representations have been executed with no small success. They not only record the form of the rocks and the islands, but even the leading features of the cataract, and the shape of the rising clouds of spray. I have often wished that Father Hennessin could have taken one of these portraits, and bequeathed it to the geologists of our times. It would have afforded us no slight aid in our speculations respecting the comparative states of the ravine in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries." The first series of Views of the Falls taken by the Daguerreotype, was executed by J. E. Myall, (Prof. High School,) in September, 1846. |
| 49. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1854 A Student Tramp to Niagara Falls Magazine page Google Books Published in "A Student Tramp to Niagara Falls" in "The Anglo-American Magazine", Volume 5, 1854, p.354 We discovered in the ferry-house at the top of the long staircase leading down to the ferry opposite the Clifton Hotel, a daguerreotypist's emporium, whose wares consisted of correct views of of the Falls taken from various points of observation, as also a number of the luckless Dutchman as he appeared in the boat which had lodged in the rapids leading to Iris Island, and who was hurried over after remaining there some forty-eight hours. Several months ago, another view presented him as he was plunging towards the brink of the Fall, his arms wildly, hopelessly tossed towards heaven. Such morbid and depraved tastes for the awfully tragic is peculiar to the other side. Fancy such a picture contributing to the embellishment of a drawingroom! It is disgusting; lamentably so! But Dollardom can turn grind-stones with the Falls, and dig down the river banks for a railroad track; so any innocent triumph of a daguerreotypist is of little consideration anyhow. "he will nasal to you!" Our British blood was boiling almost to effervescence, so we endeavored to allay it by copious exhaustings of sherry cobblers and dishes of ice-cream and strawberries, which Jonathan knows well how to prepare. |
| 50. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1855 Niagara falls Book page Google Books Charles Richard Weld A Vacation Tour in the United States and Canada (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855), p.179. A brisk trade in Indian ornaments and curiosities is carried on at Niagara. Daguerreotypes of the American fall are in great request; the proper thing, according to Yankee notions, being for the purchaser to stand prominently in the foreground while the impression is taken. Until I visited Niagara, I was at a loss to understand why all daguerreotype views should generally represent the American fall; but the ground is so violently agitated on the Canadian side as to render the operation of the camera extremely unsatisfactory, at least all the results I saw were very poor. Recent improvements in photography will, however, I have no doubt, give better effects. |
| 51. |  | Platt D. Babbitt 1855 The American Fall Book page Google Books Published in "A Vacation Tour in the United States and Canada" by Charles Richard Weld (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855), p.171-172 I was shown the scene of the last catastrophe, just above the American fall. It is a small rocky islet to which an unfortunate man clung with terrible tenacity for three days. He had been drawn into the rapids, and was on the point of being swept over the falls, when his course was arrested by the little island. Far better would it have been for him had he not met with this obstruction; for his agony during those three long days and nights was fearful. All attempts to save him were abortive; and at the close of the third day, being unable to cling longer to the rocks, he was carried over the cataract. An American daguerreotypist reaped a rich harvest by taking impressions of the poor fellow during his agony. |