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Cover illustration of a children's book on the famous 19th-century daredevil, known for his death-defying leaps from Passaic Falls, NJ, and eventually Niagara Falls in 1829. Not long after that event, Patch staged a jump from the Middle Falls in…

Among the ten scenes for Rochester's Centennial in 1934, the third took viewers back to 1829 and the daredevil's fateful leap from High Falls. Two views of the scene appear here: a portion of the program cover, and a photograph within a pdf file of…