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.
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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.