Search results

Title: Niagara -- General view from American side
Description: Landscape view showing the waterfall on the Niagara River near New York and Ontario, Canada. Includes a man wearing a top hat and a boy sitting on the edge of the cliff in the foreground., Title printed on mount., Photographer's blind stamp on mount., Publisher's label pasted on verso., White mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim Brothers copyrighted a series of stereographs with labels inscribed: "American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia" in 1858. They continued to produce stereographs until 1865, when they withdrew from the American Stereoscopic Co.
Creator: American Stereoscopic Company
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [8248.F.1]

Title: Table Rock from above, Niagara N.Y
Description: View of overhanging rock cliffs above the Niagara River on the Canadian side of the falls, showing a man sitting on the edge of the cliff, and buildings, one undergoing construction, along the land's edge., Title on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount in fancy scrollwork., Photographer's blind stamp included twice on the mount. Stamp consists of his initials, C.B., within an art palette., Distributor's label pasted on verso: James Cremer, publisher of stereoscopic views, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Stereoscopes and views, wholesale and retail., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp, No. 32., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bierstadt relocated to Niagara Falls, New York from New Bedford, Massachusetts ca. 1863 and opened his own photographic studio.
Creator: Bierstadt, Charles, 1819-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bierstadt - Views [P.9022.35]

Title: [Winter view of icicles and waterfall, Niagara Falls, New York]
Description: Winter view of Niagara Falls, New York. Large icicles hang from boulders in the foreground and a large waterfall is visible in the background., Inscribed in negative: 1278., Title supplied by cataloger., Publisher's imprint from label pasted on verso. Printed on label: These are a few select views taken in the winter of 1860 and '61., Distributor's label pasted on verso., Cream mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. was one of the largest suppliers of photographic apparatus in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Date: ca. 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Anthony - Views [8248.F.11]

Title: American Fall from Luna Island
Description: Winter view of American Falls from Luna Island, one of three falls that form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the border of the United States and Canada. A tree covered in thick icicles frames the view of the falls in the foreground., Title and photographer's imprint on mount., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp, No. 25., Distributor's label pasted on verso: James Cremer, publisher of stereoscopic views, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Stereoscopes and views, wholesale and retail., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., George Barker was a prolific New York stereographer in the 1860s whose gallery catered to the tourist trade in Niagara Falls.
Creator: Barker, George, 1844-1894, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Barker - Views [P.9022.18]

Title: American Fall from Canada
Description: Landscape view of American Falls, one of three falls that form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the border of the United States and Canada., Title printed on mount below image., Manuscript note on verso: Thanks Marie I enjoyed the book. Chris., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.8537]

Title: General view of the falls, Niagara, from Prospect Point
Description: Landscape view from Prospect Point of American Falls in the foreground and Horseshoe Falls in the background, two of the larger three falls that form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the border of the United States and Canada., Title printed on mount below image and on verso., Explicative paragraph of text printed on verso describes the scene from a quote by British author and poet Eliza Cook. Includes vignette of eagle clutching "United States of America" banner, arrows and a shield in its talons. Text and vignette enclosed within decorative border., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.38]

Title: The Horse-shoe Fall, Niagara, as viewed from Goat Island
Description: Landscape view depicts a man walking toward the Terrapin Rocks and Terrapin Tower from Goat Island over a boardwalk bridge spanning the Niagara River. Depicts the Horseshoe Falls, one of three falls that form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the border of the United States and Canada. Boardwalk bridge removed in 1887., Title printed on verso., Quote printed on verso by N.P. Willis describes the scene depicted in the photograph. Also includes a poem by the Earl of Carlisle below the quote. A vignette of eagle clutching "United States of America" banner, arrows and a shield in its talons surmounts text. Text and vignette enclosed within decorative border., Creme mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.39]

Title: Views of Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge spanning the Niagara River
Description: Views depict the Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge spanning the Niagara River constructed 1851-1855 after John A. Roebling to connect the railroads of New York Central and Great Western Railway of Canada. One image shows the large stone pylons and two decks of the bridge from the river bank and another depicts the enclosed wooden carriage level with two men standing on the sides near the lattice work., Photographer's stamp pasted on versos., Yellow mounts with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Mason, Samuel (Samuel J.)
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Mason - Bridges [P.9022.7-8]

Title: View of Niagara Falls, New York and Ontario
Description: View of the falls in the distant background. Includes a tent labeled "photographic and stereoscopic views of the falls" sheltering a camera in the left foreground., Photographer's stamp pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Mason, Samuel (Samuel J.)
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Mason - Views [P.9022.9]

Title: Falls of Niagara from New Suspension Bridge. On the line of the N.Y.C. & H.R.R.R
Description: View of Niagara Falls on the Niagara River from the Suspension Bridge (i.e., Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge and International Suspension Bridge), the world's first working suspension railway bridge connecting Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario. View includes the shoreline and mist rising from the base of the falls. The bridge was completed in 1855 after the designs of John A. Roebling and operated until 1897., Title and photographer's imprint on mount., Manuscript note on verso: Mr. Stanley C. Muschamp, compliments of H.P. Brown., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., George Barker was a prolific New York stereographer in the 1860s whose gallery catered to the tourist trade in Niagara Falls.
Creator: Barker, George, 1844-1894, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Barker - Views [P.9022.33]

Main menu