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Niagara, American Fall from Goat Island – Antique Print

Niagara, American Fall from Goat Island, c1898. — historic print
Niagara, American Fall from Goat Island, c1898.. Historic print 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 view looks across the American Fall from Goat Island, with the Upper Steel Arch Bridge spanning the river above the falls. It is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland that reproduced photographs using several lithographic stones, and it was made by the Detroit Photographic Company, which held American rights to the process. The company assembled albums of these views as a catalog for its office, so the print reflects a commercial purpose as well as a picture of the scenery. The bridge's presence gives it a record of how the falls were being developed for visitors around 1898.

Created / publishedc1898.
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color.
NotesIn album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Includes the Upper Steel Arch Bridge. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 53263. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.
SubjectsWaterfalls. Bridges.United States--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,457 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218396

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