This daguerreotype, thought to be the first photograph ever taken of Niagara Falls, was donated to Newcastle University in England in 1926 where it sat in a box for many decades. It was taken by businessman Hugh Lee Pattinson when he stopped at the Falls while in Canada on a business trip. It took more than twenty minutes for the scene to affix on the silver-coated copper plate inside his camera; afterward, he enveloped the plate in warm mercury fumes, slowly drawing the image to the surface.
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