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Lot 357
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Whole plate Niagara Falls ambrotype an...
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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Whole plate Niagara Falls ambrotype and ephemera. 19th century. Depicting a couple posing in front of the falls, and a seated man at the edge of the image. Set in a later frame, tentatively identifying the couple as Luther and Delia Carter. Small spots of flaking in iamge, discoloration and losses around edges. [With]: two tourist/souvenir books on Niagara Falls, including Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo, 1862; and Antiguas y Nuevas Vistas de las Cataratas del Niagara. Photographs by J[ohn] Zybach; and an 1821 voucher for transportation from the Frontier Hotel, via Black Rock Ferry (S.H. Salisbury, Printer, Buffalo) A nice group of Niagara Falls material. Size of frame 6 x 10".
