Niagara Falls
Attributed to Platt D. Babbitt American
Not on view
In 1853, long before it became commonplace for tourists to make snapshots of one another standing in front of Saint Peter's, the Eiffel Tower, or the Parthenon, Platt Babbitt set up business in an open pavilion at Niagara Falls' prime viewing point. His impressive daguerreotypes and ambrotypes allowed visitors to take home not only a view of the spectacular Falls and a memory of the misty air and roaring sound, but also the undeniable proof that they themselves had stood at its very edge.
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