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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>.
Bryan, William (Bill)
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Church, Frederic Edwin (1826-1900)
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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.
Niagara Gorge Railroad Company
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Wellge, H. (Henry)
Stoner, J. J.
Beck & Pauli
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>
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