[Niagara Falls]
Photograph
[Niagara Falls]
ca. 1855
Ambrotype
Image: 3 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (8.9 × 12.1 cm) (1/2 plate)
Case: 6 × 4 3/4 × 7/8 in. (15.2 × 12.1 × 2.2 cm)
Purchase
1969.0204.0018
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 666
Entry 666 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Nice half-plate ambrotype of Niagara Falls being visited by a half-dozen high-hatted conductors on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. From N.Y. estate of descendants of famous Revolutionary period miniature painter, John Ramage. Acquired for me by Fred Lightfoot, Kew Gardens, N.Y. Cost 4.00. Worth 7 or 8 dollars.
Entry 666 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Nice half-plate ambrotype of Niagara Falls being visited by a half-dozen high-hatted conductors on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. From N.Y. estate of descendants of famous Revolutionary period miniature painter, John Ramage. Acquired for me by Fred Lightfoot, Kew Gardens, N.Y. Cost 4.00. Worth 7 or 8 dollars.
