Belleni Crossing Niagara on Tight-Rope

Artist George Barker (American, born Canada, 1844 - 1894)

Dateca. 1873

MediumAlbumen stereograph

DimensionsImage and sheet (both): 4 × 6 3/16 inches (10.16 × 15.72 cm)
Mount: 4 5/16 × 7 inches (10.95 × 17.78 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.227

SignedOn mount recto, left edge, in black type: "Geo. Barker, Photographer, Niagara Falls, N.Y."

InscribedOn mount recto, right edge, in black type: "GEMS OF AMERICAN SCENERY"; On mount recto, lower left, in black type: "375 Belleni crossing Niagara on a tight-rope. / On line of N.Y.C. & H.R.R.R.".

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DescriptionImage of a person walking across a tight rope with waterfalls in the background.Published References

Published References

Anthony Bannon, Taking of Niagara: A History of the Falls in Photography (Buffalo: Media Study, 1982): 18-19; "Mr. George Barker," Wilson's Photographic Magazine 32:457 (January 1895): 45; James Gardner, Special Report of New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls (Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons, 1880): n.p.

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, 257 (repro), 350-351.

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