Hotel on Niagara, "Angler's Reteat" piled 60 feet high from ice, New York State – Antique Print
(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: Hotel on Niagara, "Angler's Reteat" piled 60 feet high from ice, New York State, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hotel on Niagara, "Angler's Reteat" piled 60 feet high from ice, New York State
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A hotel called the Angler's Retreat appears half buried under a wall of ice piled about 60 feet high, in a scene the title places on the Niagara River in New York State. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information that has not been independently verified, so the exact winter remains uncertain. Ice piles like this formed when floating ice jammed against the shore and built upward, sometimes swallowing buildings near the water. The Bain News Service, which made and sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, often recorded unusual scenes like this one, which makes the picture a useful record of how severe winter weather could be along the river.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,729 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4545 |
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