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Photograph, Winter Niagara Falls, Terrapin Tower from Goat Island, 1855
This is a Photograph. It was created by Frederic and William Langenheim. It is dated 1855 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is glass stereoscopic transparency, black tape, brush and white, gold ink. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Norvin Hewitt Green.
It is credited Gift of Norvin Hewitt Green.
Its dimensions are
8.3 x 17.5 cm (3 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in white ink, left: Terrapin Tower; above: Niagara Falls Winter.; right: from Goat Island, N.Y.; below: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1854 by F. Langenheim in the Clerk’s office of the district Court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania.
Cite this object as
Photograph, Winter Niagara Falls, Terrapin Tower from Goat Island, 1855; Frederic and William Langenheim (United States); glass stereoscopic transparency, black tape, brush and white, gold ink; 8.3 x 17.5 cm (3 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.); Gift of Norvin Hewitt Green; 1938-58-52
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
