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Still Image
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Original Format
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Photograph
Physical Dimensions
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5 x 7 in.
Dublin Core
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Title
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Niagara Falls Dry
Description
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During the mid-1960s, journalist Cliff Spieler of the <em>Niagara Gazette</em> published a series of articles warning that the American Falls were in danger of "disappearing" due to erosion and rockfall (two major incidents occurring in 1931 and 1954). By 1969, permission was granted to de-water the falls using a cofferdam; geologists drilled a series of exploratory holes and eventually concluded that .<br /><br />In the meantime, surreal images of a de-watered falls were recorded by curious tourist during a period of some five months. The photographs are somewhat ironic in that human intervention already was playing a role at Niagara Falls due to hydroelectric diversion. <br /><br />There are two images here, the second slightly cropped for the purpose of <a href="https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=744f0822-2a74-11ea-b9b8-0edaf8f81e27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Knight Lab Juxtapose application</a>.
Creator
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Bryan, William (Bill)
Date
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1969
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<a href="https://flic.kr/p/939tPb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Courtesy of Flickr</a>
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jpeg, 1.5 MB
Niagara Falls, NY
Niagara River
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Oil painting
Physical Dimensions
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40 x 95.5 in.
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Title
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Niagara Falls
Creator
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Church, Frederic Edwin (1826-1900)
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Cooper, Ken
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<a href="https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.166436.html">Corcoran Collection, National Gallery of Art</a><br /><br />Via Wikimedia
Format
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jpeg, 632 KB
jpeg, 4.6 MB
Type
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Oil painting
Date
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1857
Description
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One of the most famous American paintings of the 19th century, Church prepared for his work via numerous studies and the innovative decision to adapt his aspect ratio to the Falls' width--probably borrowed from murals and panoramic paintings. The result was wildly popular with critics and audiences. "Niagara Falls" attracted some 100,000 visitors during its debut show in New York, each paying 25 cents and often bringing binoculars to admire its minute detail. It traveled to major cities in the eastern US, then to England and eventually the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris.
Frederic Edwin Church
Niagara Falls, NY
Niagara River
painting
Watersheds
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Bird's-Eye View
Physical Dimensions
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22 x 82 cm
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Title
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Niagara's Great Gorge Trip
Creator
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Niagara Gorge Railroad Company
Date
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1927
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~271863~90045652:Niagara-s-Great-Gorge-Trip-?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:niagara;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=407&trs=418#">David Rumsey Historical Map Collection</a>
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jpeg, 1.6 MB
jpeg, 7.9 MB
Type
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Still image
Description
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Promotional brochure from the motor age--"There is no Automobile Road Through the Gorge"--was created by an electric railway company started in the early 1890s. Capt. John M. Brinker, a Buffalo businessman, had the perseverance to capitalize a tourist line running between the towns of Niagara Falls and Lewiston, running down through the gorge alongside the Niagara River. Despite considerable engineering difficulties, the line proved popular; tourists would ride in open-sided cars beholding the river's sublime power. A tourist rail line along the Canadian rim had been constructed in 1892, and the two companies were combined in 1902 resulting in the circular route show here. <br /><br />But the gorge's geology, namely a type of shale prone to erosion and rockfall, eventually doomed the railroad. There were fatal tourist accidents in 1907, 1915, and 1917; landslides destroyed portions of the rail lines and rendered it unprofitable. The company dissolved in 1935, but traces of the gorge railway still are visible today. Source consulted: <a href="https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/06/the-niagara-gorge-railroad.html">"The Niagara Gorge Railroad,"</a> Amusing Planet.
bird's eye view
Lewiston, NY
Niagara Falls, NY
Niagara Gorge Railroad
Watersheds
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Bird's eye view
Physical Dimensions
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44 x 74 cm
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Title
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Niagara Falls, NY 1882
Creator
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Wellge, H. (Henry)
Stoner, J. J.
Beck & Pauli
Publisher
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Madison, Wis., J. J. Stoner
Date
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1881
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Library of Congress Geography and Map Division<br /><a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804n.pm006080">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804n.pm006080</a>
Format
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jpeg, 3.0 MB
Type
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Bird's eye view
Description
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By the 1880s Niagara Falls was a very popular tourist destination, thanks to the availability of railroad transportation to its spectacular falls. A number of viewpoints and activities are shown on the map, including a dicey-looking elevator ride down to the Cave of the Winds on Goat Island. Yet the supply of hydropower--see the canal and mills at left, and even on Green Island--meant that manufacturing also was an long-established interest. This history created a legacy post-industrial pollution most notoriously as nearby Love Canal.
bird's eye view
Henry Wellge
J.J. Stoner
Map
Niagara Falls, NY