Majestically Grand -the Fall, from the - "Maid of the Mist" - Niagara, USA
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card Size 88 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520624
Summary
A albumen stereograph print depicting a view of Niagara Falls from the Maid of the Mist . Print is mounted on grey card with rounded corners and a curved profile. Recto: Bottom right is printed Copyright 1901 by by Underwood & Underwood, also bottom right is printed 6 and the title "Majestically Grand -the Fall, from the - "Maid of the Mist" - Niagara, USA". Printed on left edge in italics is "Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, New York, London,Toronto Canada,Ottawa- Kansas.' On the right hand edge in italics is printed "Works and Studios: Arlington NJ, Littleton NH, Washington DC, Sun Sculpture Trade Mark. Verso has an extended description of the view and the title in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, publisher