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[View of Niagara Falls] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[View of Niagara Falls], [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
[View of Niagara Falls], [ca. 1900]. Historic photograph from the State Parks 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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Step back in time with [View of Niagara Falls], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Niagara Falls on the New York and Ontario border is the subject here, shown as it looked around 1900, when the cataract drew steady crowds of tourists by rail and steamboat. The record offers little beyond its title and a caption card with catalog tracings, so the picture's maker and exact vantage point are not known. Still, the period is well documented: by then the falls had become one of the country's best-known natural wonders, and photographers sold views of the cascades to visitors who wanted a souvenir of the trip. Images from this era are useful for comparing how the shoreline and surrounding park looked before later engineering changed the scene.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--N- F-; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,107 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143228

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