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[Buffalo Avenue and Hotel Kaltenbach, Niagara Falls, N.Y.] – Antique Print

[Buffalo Avenue and Hotel Kaltenbach, Niagara Falls, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Buffalo Avenue and Hotel Kaltenbach, Niagara Falls, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Buffalo 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Buffalo Avenue and Hotel Kaltenbach, Niagara Falls, N.Y.]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Buffalo Avenue and Hotel Kaltenbach, Niagara Falls, N.Y.]

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Hotel Kaltenbach stands at the right edge of this view of Buffalo Avenue in Niagara Falls, New York, one of the hotels that catered to the steady stream of visitors drawn to the falls in the early 1900s. The picture was made as a large glass dry plate negative, between 1905 and 1920, by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American towns, scenic spots and streets for the travel market. Its street scene shows the boardinghouse and hotel row that grew up around the tourist trade, when a visit to the falls was a major trip. The negative's later donation to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949 is part of its record.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Hotel at right. G 5588" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036819. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Streets.United States--New York (State)--Niagara Falls (City)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68153

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