Babbitt, Platt D.
American (-1879)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Tourists viewing Niagara Falls from Prospect Point

ca. 1855
daguerreotype with applied color
13.6 x 19.0 cm. (oval), full plate
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEGS: 23599 34986 47738
78:0608:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Newhall, Beaumont. --The History of Photography from 1839 to Present.-- Museum of Modern Art, 1964.//
Rinhart, Floyd and Marion. --The American Daguerreotype.-- Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1981.//
Bannon, Anthony. --The Taking of Niagara: A History of the Falls in Photography.-- Buffalo, NY: Media Study, 1982. pl. 6.//
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. p. 45.//
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Hirsch, Robert. --Seizing the Light: A History of Photography.-- New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. pg. 44.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 76.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 19th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984, 1979.//
"Images of Excellence", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 1 - April 26, 1987. (Traveled).//
"A Lasting Impression: The Daguerreotype in America", US, GA, Atlanta, High Museum at Georgia-Pacific Center, November 30, 1989 - February 23, 1990.//
"Early Works of Photography", Japan, Tokyo, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, January 30 - March 25, 1992.//
"Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-mat (embossed) "Babbitt N. Falls"

NOTES: Cataloged 3/85, R. Sobieszek, et al, updated 7/91, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, group
landscape, waterfalls / Niagara Falls
landscape, figures in