[Two couples at Niagara Falls]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Two couples at Niagara Falls]
ca. 1858
Ambrotype
Image: 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.8 cm) (whole plate)
Case: 9 × 7 × 15/16 in. (22.9 × 17.8 × 2.4 cm)
Purchase
1969.0204.0033
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 757
Entry 757 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Handsome large ambrotype of Niagara Falls. Large rare 7”x9” size in fine pressed case. shows two young couple in quaint dress looking at Falls. Nice costume close-up beside wonderful view of Falls. Couples out on Prospect Point overlooking American Falls in foreground, Goat Island, then Canadian Falls, with Terrapin Lower and Horseshoe Falls. Cost about 5.00 Worth 15.00
Entry 757 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Handsome large ambrotype of Niagara Falls. Large rare 7”x9” size in fine pressed case. shows two young couple in quaint dress looking at Falls. Nice costume close-up beside wonderful view of Falls. Couples out on Prospect Point overlooking American Falls in foreground, Goat Island, then Canadian Falls, with Terrapin Lower and Horseshoe Falls. Cost about 5.00 Worth 15.00
