The American Falls, from Luna Island, with an ice encrusted tree in the foreground

The American Falls, from Luna Island, with an ice encrusted tree in the foreground

Photograph

Platt D. Babbitt

Maker
American, 1822–1879

Edward Anthony

American, 1819–1888

The American Falls, from Luna Island, with an ice encrusted tree in the foreground

From Niagara in Winter


1860
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 2 13/16 × 2 13/16 in. (7.2 × 7.1 cm)
Mount: 3 1/4 × 6 13/16 in. (8.3 × 17.3 cm)
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2025
2025.0041.0030
Inscriptions Printed in image, C: 268
Printed in black on applied label on mount recto, B: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860, by P.D. BABBIT, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New-York.
Inscribed in pencil in mount verso, TL: AV \ Ry
Printed in black on applied label on mount verso, OA: No. 268. \ NIAGARA IN WINTER. \ THE AMERICAN FALLS, FROM LUNA ISLAND, WITH AN ICE ENCRUSTED TREE \ IN THE FOREGROUND. \ [COPYRIGHT SECURED.] \ Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New-York.
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