Minnehaha Falls
Attributed to
Joel E. Whitney
(American, 1822 - 1886)
Dateca. 1855
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (sixth): 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches (8.26 x 6.99 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.101
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Keith F. Davis, The Origins of American Photography: from Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885. With contributions by Jane L. Aspinwall. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation: in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007. Distributed by Yale University Press. Published in conjunction with Developing Greatness: the Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885, shown at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Page 136 (repro.).
Waggoner, Diane, Russell Lord, and Jennifer Raab. East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art Washington and New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2017), 32 (repro.).
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