Gorge of the Niagara River : on the New York Central & Hudson River railroad
Description:
"This is one of a series of large display photogravures that William Henry Jackson executed for the New York Central for their passenger waiting rooms. This plate size has to be one of the biggest used commercially during this time period. Larger plates have not been noted in any bibliographies or histories."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 105
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Photogravure from a photograph of the Niagara River and a small photogravure of a railway engine in lower left corner