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Southworth & Hawes
American (active ca 1845-1861)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Niagara River above the falls

ca. 1850
daguerreotype
21.5 X 16.5 cm., full plate
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 40717
74:0193:0255A

Sobieszek, Robert & Appel, Odette M. --Spirit of Fact: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes.-- Boston: David R. Godine, 1976. pl. 98.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Spirit of Fact: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, February 20 - June 8, 1976.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 25, 1991 - March 22, 1992.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection (reinstallation)", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 18, 1993 - June 5, 1994.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the George Eastman House Collection", Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, November 18, 1995 - January ??, 1996.//
"Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography", US, NY, New York November 3, 2000 - March 18, 2001.//

NOTES: Cataloged 11/85, BS, updated 11/90, MMC. Title assigned on the basis of information provided by Robert Bretz, 2/93.

SUBJECTS:
landscape, river
landscape, winter

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