The Falls of Niagara - On the Brink/The American Shoe, from Goat Island/The descent to the Cave of the Winds – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of The Falls of Niagara - On the Brink/The American Shoe, from Goat Island/The descent to the Cave of the Winds. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Falls of Niagara - On the Brink/The American Shoe, from Goat Island/The descent to the Cave of the Winds
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Few views of Niagara from the 1870s show visitors as close to the water as this wood engraving, which depicts the descent to the Cave of the Winds at the foot of the American Falls on Goat Island. The scene was published in Harper's Weekly on September 11, 1875, across two pages, and it pairs the title's three vantage points, the brink of the falls, the American Shoe, and the stairway path, into a single sequence. Wood engravings like this one carried the wonder of the cataract to readers who would never make the trip themselves, and the tourists shown picking their way down the wet rock give a sense of how much effort such a visit demanded.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1875 Sept. 11, p. 740-741. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--Niagara Falls; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,164 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131268 |
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