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This photograph shows a white-and-blue waterfall on the right cascading over a rocky edge into a misty river below on the left. There are large brown rocks in the bottom left corner, the white spray from the waterfall partially obscuring them. Beside the waterfall, on the far right, is a viewing platform with a fence and greenery. A bridge stretches across the scene in the distance on the left, connecting the land on either side of the pale blue river. Greenery extends into the distance beyond the bridge. The sky has fluffy white and gray clouds against a pale blue background.
National Gallery of Art · Photograph
American Falls from Goat Island
William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company
- Date
- published c. 1912
- Medium
- photo-chromolithograph
- Dimensions
- image/sheet: 52 × 42.5 cm (20 1/2 × 16 3/4 in.)
- Classification
- Photograph · Print
- Accession number
- 2018.177.194
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
- Time span
- 1901 to 1925
- Department
- CPH
Subjects and terms
- American
- Landscape
- United States
- landscape
- photolithograph
- Waterfall
- Nature
- Color
- Postcard
- photochrom
- Niagara Falls
Provenance
Christopher Cardozo, St. Paul, MN; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Inscription
bottom right printed in black ink: 59039 COPR. DETROIT PUBLISHING CO; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite underlined: 608 / 350 / Less [?] 50
NGA object ID 218104. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.