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https://openvalley.org/files/original/ad6b39d43ccf778a67c15fca5a2aaf8a.jpg
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Engraving
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Title
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Upper Falls of the Genesee, ca. 1761
Creator
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Davies, Thomas, 1737-1812 (artist)
Mazell, Peter, 1761-1802 (engraver)
Gavit & Duthrie (copy of engraving)
Date
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1761-1762
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Format
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jpeg, 660 KB
Source
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<p>Pouchot, Pierre, and Franklin Benjamin Hough, <em>Memoir upon the late war in North America, between the French and English, 1755-60 : followed by observations upon the theatre of actual war, and by new details concerning the manners and customs of the Indians ; with topographical</em> map, W. Elliot Woodward, 1866.<br /><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/memoiruponlatewa02pouc/page/n196?q=Casconchiagon+davies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Via Internet Archive</a></p>
Description
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This is one of the earliest known images of waterfalls in the vicinity of present-day Rochester, NY. Davies, a British Army officer, had trained to provide drawings for military. The drawing here was one of a series produced during the French and Indian War, especially of the Niagara and Genesee Rivers. The caption reads: "South East View of the Great Cataract on Casconchiagon or Little Seneca's River, Lake Ontario, 1768.
Type
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Still image
Genesee River
High Falls
Thomas Davies
Upper Falls
Watersheds