[Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River] DAG no....

CALL NUMBER:DAG no. 1165

Original served by appointment only.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZC4-4771 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZCN4-126 (color film copy neg.)
LC-USZ6-2018 (b&w film copy neg. post-1992)
LC-USZ62-51430 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992)
No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river''s strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths. The daguerreotype shows the third man, stranded on a log which had jammed between two rocks. He weathered the current for eighteen hours before succumbing to the river. The image is an early example of a news photograph.

MEDIUM:1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[1853 July]

CREATOR:

Babbitt, Platt D., d. 1879, photographer.

NOTES:

Case: central floral motif surrounded by scrolls.

Purchase; 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:230).

Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

SUBJECTS:

Waterfalls--1850-1860.
Marine accidents--New York (State)--1850-1860.
Drowning victims--New York (State)--1850-1860.
Danger--New York (State)--1850-1860.
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--1850-1860.

FORMAT:

Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.

PART OF:Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:(color film copy transparency) cph 3g04771
(color film copy neg.) cph 3j00126
(b&w film copy neg. post-1992) cph 3d02018
(b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) cph 3a51470

CARD #:2004664370

Pop Art Machine Code: cph-3a50000-3a51000-3a51400-3a51470


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