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Niagara Falls: from Goat Island – Historic Print

Niagara Falls: from Goat Island, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1873] — antique lithograph
Niagara Falls: from Goat Island, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1873]. Antique lithograph 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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A window into the past: Niagara Falls: from Goat Island, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Goat Island, the wooded island that splits the Niagara River at the brink of the falls, gave visitors a view that few other spots on the gorge could match. This hand-colored lithograph, published by Currier & Ives in New York sometime between 1856 and 1873, shows the cataract as tourists of the mid-nineteenth century would have seen it from the island's paths. Currier & Ives made their prints affordable and widely sold, so pictures like this one carried the falls into parlors across the country long before most Americans made the trip north. The image is catalogued in the firm's raisonné, which helps date and identify the many views the company produced of this famous site.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1873]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4842
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 994 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175365

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