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Niagara Falls: from Goat Island – Antique 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Niagara Falls: from Goat Island in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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From Goat Island, the wooded island that divides Niagara Falls between the American Fall and the Horseshoe Fall, this view looks out over the rushing water and the broad curve of the cataract. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold inexpensive colored prints to a wide middle-class market, published many Niagara scenes, and this one dates from between 1856 and 1873, when the falls had become one of the most visited sights in the country. Visitors reached Goat Island by footbridges, so the print shows a vantage that many travelers sought out. Because the color was added by hand after printing, the greens and whites of the spray vary from one copy to another.

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 × 981 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109275

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