Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River,1853,New York,Waterfalls

Title: [Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River]
Creator(s): Babbitt, Platt D., d. 1879, photographer
Date Created/Published: [1853 July]
Summary: Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river's strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths. The daguerreotype shows the third man, stranded on a log which had jammed between two rocks. He weathered the current for eighteen hours before succumbing to the river. The image is an early example of a news photograph.
Notes:
Case: central floral motif surrounded by scrolls.
Purchase; 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:230).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Waterfalls--1850-1860.
Marine accidents--New York (State)--1850-1860.
Drowning victims--New York (State)--1850-1860.
Danger--New York (State)--1850-1860.
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--1850-1860.
Daguerreotypes--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2004664370/
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