First Photograph of Lightning

First Photograph of Lightning

Photograph

William N. Jennings

Maker
American, b. England, 1860–1946

First Photograph of Lightning

ca. 1885
Gelatin silver print
Image: 1 9/16 × 2 in. (4 × 5.1 cm)
Mount: 5 7/8 × 3 7/16 in. (15 × 8.7 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
1983.0679.0003
Inscriptions Inscribed in black ink on recto, C: First photograph \ of Lightning
Signature inscribed in black ink on recto, RC : W. N. Jennings
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