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Image: Daguerrotype of Niagara Falls by Hugh Lee Pattinson 1840

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Description: Early Daguerreotype photograph by Hugh Lee Pattinson (1796-1858), English metallurgist, believed to be the first ever taken of the Niagara Falls. The image was taken from the Canadian side in 1840, and inverted left-right.
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