View across the East River

View across the East River

Transparency

W. & F. Langenheim

Maker
American, 1843–1874

View across the East River

ca. 1855
Collodion silver transparency
Overall: 8.2 × 10.2 cm (3 1/4 × 4 in.)
Image: 6.5 × 6 cm (2 9/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1979.1829.0012
Inscriptions recto (written in white ink on mount): New York Har [rest covered by black tape] / View across the East River / (printed in gold on mount): F. LANGENHEIM'S PATENT, Nov. 19, 1850.

verso (pencil on tape): 430724
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