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Record information Niagara Falls
Date:ca. 1838-1850Reference:Box number: A221-02Type of material:ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:2886199Date(s):ca. 1838-1850Place:BuffaloPlace of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedPublisher:Hall and MooneyPlace of printing:BuffaloExtent:1 print / estampe : lithograph on wove paper
Support 14.800 x 20.600 cm
Image 12.200 x 16.800 cm
Secondary support 14.800 x 20.600 cmScope and content:Father Louis Hennepin was the first white man to see Niagara Falls. The etching, which shows European figures gesticulating their amazement, has been reproduced by a Buffalo lithography house., This work was one of several views of Niagara Falls in the William Molson Macpherson Collection. It is now removed from its frame. Its attribution is tentative.Additional name(s):Additional information:General note:publication: Copy from Louis Hennepin, "A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America" (1st english ed., 1699)Signatures and inscriptions note:Inscribed., Inscription: in the plate, b. under image:Lith of Hall & Mooney, Buffalo./Fac-Simile of a View of Niagara Falls, taken by Father Hennepin/-in 1678-Source:PrivateOther accession no.:1989-514 X DAP
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NilBox [1989-514][Consultation Open]A221-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 91[Consultation Open]Terms of use:Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-514-91
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