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10028.g.5(15)
- Record Id:
- 040-003235071
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003235056
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026869721.0x0005d6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 10028.g.5(15)
- Title:
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Niagara River in winter. Photographer: Bierstadt, Charles
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
Winter scene and cloudscape at Niagara, with great spray-formed ice mounds in the foreground largely concealing the falls themselves. With accompanying letterpress by Walter Woodbury: 'Our view, though giving but a distant view of the Falls, has been chosen as representing one of those wonderful winter combinations of ice and snow which the photographer has arrested by means of his camera.The mass of spray rising in the air partly obscures the Great Horse-Shoe Fall, the Terrapin tower standing out boldly against the sky. A portion of the American Fall is seen on the left side of the picture...'
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003235056
040-003235071 - Is part of:
- 10028.g.5 : Treasure spots of the world. A selection of the chief beauties and wonders of nature and art. Edited by Walter B. Woodbury.…
10028.g.5(15) : Niagara River in winter. Photographer: Bierstadt, Charles - Hierarchy:
- 032-003235056[0015]/040-003235071
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: 10028.g.5
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Photomechanical Print
Woodburytype - Start Date:
- 1865
- End Date:
- 1875
- Date Range:
- 1865-1875
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 146 mm x 127 mm
Format: Printed Book
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bierstadt, Charles, 1819-1903
- Subjects:
- Bodies Of Water
Cloud Formations
Ice
Natural Phenomena
Rivers
Waterfalls