Cave of the winds – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Cave of the winds
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The "Cave of the Winds" was a path at the foot of the Bridal Veil Falls on the American side of Niagara, where visitors could descend from Goat Island and stand in the spray beneath the falling water. Geo. Barker, a Niagara Falls photographer, made this albumen print in the late 1880s and stamped his name on the mount, as commercial view makers of the period often did. Tourists typically wore rain gear and followed guides over the wet rocks to reach the base, and the picture conveys how the site drew crowds eager for a close look at the falls' power.
| Created / published | c1888. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Landscape photographs 1880-1890.Albumen prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Copyright by Geo. Barker. Stamped on verso of mount: Geo. Barker, Landscape Photographer, [...], Niagara Falls, N.Y. Image of America: early photography, 1839-1900. Washington : Library of Congress, 1957, no. 176 Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 120. Exhibited: Image of America: early photography, 1839-1900, Library of Congress, no. 176. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 209 |
| Subjects | Waterfalls--New York (State)--1880-1890. Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,295 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111738 |
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