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[Canal, Willow Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.] – Antique Print

[Canal, Willow Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Canal, Willow Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Niagara Falls 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: [Canal, Willow Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Canal, Willow Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.]

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Willow Island and the canal that bears its name sit on the New York side of the Niagara River, where the water was harnessed for industry. Canals like this one carried river water to mills and, later, to power plants that grew up around the falls in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company made this large glass negative sometime between 1905 and 1920 for its catalog of American views, which sold as postcards and albums. The plate later passed through a Colorado historical society before reaching the Library of Congress, and it preserves how this working waterway looked before later development.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 5603" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036825. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCanals.United States--New York (State)--Niagara Falls (City)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68159

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