Rapids from Niagara River Elevator Company's platform – Antique 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.)
Description
Rapids from Niagara River Elevator Company's platform comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Rapids from Niagara River Elevator Company's platform
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The panorama shows the rapids of the Niagara River as seen from the platform of the Niagara River Elevator Company, a vantage point that gives the long, wide format its sweep of churning white water and rock. The print is a gelatin silver photograph of about 1912, made by William A. Drennan and deposited with the U.S. Copyright Office that September, which is why it survives in the Library of Congress. The rapids run for a mile or more above the falls, where the river drops sharply through the gorge, and the cliffs that frame the view show the steep walls that shaped the river's course.
| Created / published | c1912. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 10 x 53.5 in. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints.Panoramic photographs. |
| Notes | J173456 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Wm. A. Drennan; September 13, 1912; DLC/PP-1912:44504. |
| Subjects | Rivers. Cliffs.United States--New York (State)--Niagara River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,158 × 4,139 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-199492 |
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