Save Niagara Falls -- from this / J.S. Pughe ; J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., N.Y. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Save Niagara Falls -- from this / J.S. Pughe ; J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., N.Y. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Save Niagara Falls -- from this / J.S. Pughe ; J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., N.Y.
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Save Niagara Falls -- from this" is the caption that gives this color lithograph its point, and the blank word "this" leaves the threat for viewers to supply. Readers of 1906 would have been thinking about hydroelectric companies diverting water from the cataract and about commercial crowding along the gorge. The cartoon ran in *Puck*, the weekly known for pointed color lithographs on public questions, and it was printed by J. Ottmann's lithograph house. It joins the early push to treat the falls as public scenery rather than private opportunity. New York had already made its Niagara land a state reservation in 1885, the first state park in the nation.
| Created / published | 1906 April 18. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Editorial cartoons American 1900-1910.Periodical illustrations 1900-1910.Lithographs Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Puck, 1906 April 18. Copyright by Keppler & Schwarzmann. |
| Subjects | Tourism--New York (State)--Niagara Falls--1900-1910. Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,171 × 1,466 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218398 |
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