Horseshoe Fall, Niagara – Antique Wall Art
(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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Horseshoe Fall, Niagara comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Horseshoe Fall, Niagara
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Horseshoe Fall, the crescent-shaped cataract on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, is the subject of this color print from about 1901. The Detroit Publishing Company issued it as one of many photochrom views of American and Canadian scenery, sold as souvenirs and travel pictures in the years around 1900. The photochrom process, developed in Switzerland, built up color from several lithographic stones, giving the spray and the water a soft, painted quality. The print shows how the falls had become a major tourist destination, a place visitors wanted to see and remember in color.
| Created / published | c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co., no. 59030. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Waterfalls.United States--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.Canada--Ontario--Niagara Falls. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,321 × 3,721 px · prints to 18 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif17830_HorseshoeFallNiagara |
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