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Niagara, the Horseshoe Fall – Vintage Print

Niagara, the Horseshoe Fall, c1899. — historic print
Niagara, the Horseshoe Fall, c1899.. Historic print 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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Niagara, the Horseshoe Fall comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Niagara's Horseshoe Fall, the crescent-shaped cataract on the Canadian side of the river, is the subject here, shown in a color photochrom from the Detroit Publishing Company. The company, based in Detroit, produced these hand-tinted prints using a lithographic process that layered many stone impressions to mimic color, and it sold them widely to tourists and publishers around 1900. Photochroms like this one were prized as souvenirs of the great waterfall, which by then drew large crowds from across North America and Europe. The print's number, 50208, and its copyright deposit record help place it within the company's large catalog.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co., no. 50208. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsWaterfalls.United States--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.Canada--Ontario--Niagara Falls.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 807 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-78800

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