Untitled (Niagara Falls)

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Artist: Platt D. Babbitt / American, 1823-1879
Date: 1853
Medium: Daguerreotype
Dimensions: 14.5 × 19.5 cm (5 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.); Frame: 30.2 × 36 × 2.7 cm (11 15/16 × 14 3/16 × 1 1/8 in.); Sight, plate: 16.6 × 21.6 cm (6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: portrait
Place: United States
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Leonian Charitable Trust
Accession no.: 2019.634

Untitled (Niagara Falls)
Platt D. Babbitt
1852 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00009126
Niagara Falls with well-dressed group
Platt D. Babbitt
c. 1862–64 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00013363

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.