Tireless Niagara - Horshoe Falls, from Above
studio of Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1902
Materials
Card
Measurements
89 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520629
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting a view of Niagara Falls from the Canadian side. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have curved tops and square bottoms. Recto printed in black ink on the right lower margin (13) Tireless Niagara - Horseshoe Falls, from above, U.S.A. Copyright 190 (the ink here is faded) & Underwood In the left hand margin printed in italic print n black ink Underwood & Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto- Canada, Ottawa- Kansas In the right hand margin Works and Studios Arlington N.J. Littleton N.H. Washington D.C. Verso - printed in black ink is a long description taken from a publication Niagara Through the Stereoscope, with special "keyed" maps published by Underwood & Underwood Below that printed in black ink in English, French, German and three other languages is the title:- Tireless Niagara - Horshoe Falls, from Above The long descriptive piece starts by stating:- We are standing on the Canadian side of the river, looking S.E. across the enormous curve of the Horseshoe toward the Dufferin Islands on the Canadian side. An albumen print stereograph depicting... Print is mounted on ? colour? corner shape? card, shape of images. Recto Verso
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 1976-198
Makers and roles
studio of Underwood & Underwood, photographic publisher