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[Down the river from Goat Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.] – Antique Print

[Down the river from Goat Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Down the river from Goat Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Niagara Falls collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Down the river from Goat Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Down the river from Goat Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.]

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Tourists climb a wooden stairway on a rocky bank as they look down the river from Goat Island, a spot that drew sightseers to the rapids below the American Falls. The view comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American towns, resorts and scenery between the 1890s and the 1920s, and the glass plate negative dates from roughly 1900 to 1915. In those years Niagara Falls was one of the country's most popular destinations, and staircases and walkways down into the gorge let visitors get close to the water. The picture shows how that tourism shaped the way people experienced the landscape.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Tourists climbing stairway. G 6650" and "extra" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039441. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsWaterfalls.United States--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.Canada--Ontario--Niagara Falls.United States--New York (State)--Goat Island.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69106

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