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Call Number:

PH-02230

Collection Name:

Special report of New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls, and Fourth Annual Report on the Triangulation of the State. For the Year 1879

Creator:

Barker, George (1844 - 1894)

No. of Items:

9 items

Description:

Photographically illustrated book, titled Special report of New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls, and Fourth Annual Report on the Triangulation of the State. For the Year 1879 (Albany: C. Van Benthuysen & Sons, 1880), containing nine mounted photographs (collotypes). Captions follow.

958:0192:0001- General View of Niagara Falls and Goat Island;
958:0192:0002- American Falls and Prospect Park Shore;
958:0192:0003- Village Shore, Just Above American Falls;
958:0192:0004- Disfigured Banks. Village Shore of Upper American Falls;
958:0192:0005- Disfigured Banks. Bath Island in the American Rapids;
958:0192:0006- Disfigured Banks. Lower American Rapids, Bath Island Paper Mills and Goat Island Bridge;
958:0192:0007- Disfigured Banks. Repulsive Scenery Around Visitor Approaching Goat Island Bridge for First View of Rapids;
958:0192:0008 -- Natural Banks. Upper American Rapids and Goat Island Shore;
958:0192:0009 -- Disfigured Banks. Brink of Horse Shoe Falls and Canadian Shore.

Location(s):

F 127 N8 N51 HRC-P (958:0192:0001-0009)
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