General View from the American Side (Niagara Falls)

c. 1860

Frederick Langenheim

Artist, American, born Germany, 1809 - 1879

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    stereoscopic glass transparency

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (each): 6.5 × 6 cm (2 9/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
    plate: 8.5 × 17.3 cm (3 3/8 × 6 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.79.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Russell Norton, New Haven, CT; NGA purchase, 2017.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

vertical along left edge in gold ink: from the American side.; center vertical: F. LANGENHEIM’S PATENT, Nov. 19, 1850.; vertical along right edge: GENERAL VIEW,; across bottom: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by F. Langenheim, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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