16 7/8 x 12 3/4 in. albumen photograph on 22 1/8 x 17 in. cardstock mount. Unmarked, but believed to have been taken by George Barker. A panoramic view of Niagara Falls, looking north east to the American Falls.

Born in London, Ontario, George Barker became a very influential landscape photographer who owned studios in both London and the Niagara Falls region of Canada. Other than large-format photographs and stereoviews sold before 1870, little of Barker’s work survives because his archive was consumed in a fire in 1870, five years after he established his photography business in Niagara. At his death he was hailed as the “eminent photographer of Niagara Falls.”