Niagara Falls. Part of the British fall, taken from under the table rock – Historic Reproduction
![Niagara Falls. Part of the British fall, taken from under the table rock, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7b/7ba1585f7357-L.webp)
(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 print of Niagara Falls. Part of the British fall, taken from under the table rock. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Niagara Falls. Part of the British fall, taken from under the table rock
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The Horseshoe, or British Fall, is the larger of the two cataracts at Niagara, and this print shows its face as seen from beneath the Table Rock, the ledge on the Canadian side that let visitors stand almost at the foot of the water. Viewed from that low angle, the sheer mass of falling water and the rising spray become the real subject. The record does not give a date or a photographer's name beyond a shelflist card associated with the name Hill, so the exact year is uncertain. Views like this were popular with nineteenth-century travelers, who came to Niagara expecting the sublime and found a site that was already a major tourist destination.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hill. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,095 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110144 |
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