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Niagara Falls – Vintage Print

Niagara Falls, n/a — historic photograph
Niagara Falls, n/a. 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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Niagara Falls comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Niagara Falls, the subject of this glass negative, sits on the border between New York and Ontario, where the Niagara River drops over the escarpment into the gorge below. The record gives no date, so the exact moment of exposure is unknown, but the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress holds many views from the early 1900s, when the falls drew steady crowds of tourists and photographers. Bain's news service supplied pictures to newspapers across the country, and its negatives preserve how the falls looked to a broad public in that era.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,741 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-17605

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