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Niagara. Mrs. Taylor starting for the upper rapids preparing to risk her life in the Cataract of Niagara – Historic Print

Niagara. Mrs. Taylor starting for the upper rapids preparing to risk her life in the Cataract of Niagara, c1901. — historic photograph
Niagara. Mrs. Taylor starting for the upper rapids preparing to risk her life in the Cataract of Niagara, c1901.. Historic photograph 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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Niagara. Mrs. Taylor starting for the upper rapids preparing to risk her life in the Cataract of Niagara 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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Niagara. Mrs. Taylor starting for the upper rapids preparing to risk her life in the Cataract of Niagara

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The caption names a Mrs. Taylor preparing to enter the Cataract of Niagara, and the best-known woman of that name to attempt it is Annie Edson Taylor, who went over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel in October 1901 and survived. Her stunt drew crowds to the gorge and made the falls a national spectacle, though it also alarmed local officials, who later moved to restrict such attempts. The card was issued by Griffith & Griffith, a Niagara Falls firm whose views were sold as stereographs, pairs of photographs meant to be seen in three dimensions through a parlor viewer. The caption also files the subject under "daredevils," a label that reflects the period's fascination with people who tested the falls.

Created / publishedc1901.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by Griffith & Griffith. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Daredevils; New York -- Niagara Falls; BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,366 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136552

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