First Photo of Niagara Falls (1840)



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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