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Poster

Travel By Train, Niagara Falls Poster

Date: 1934
Description: An original lithograph promoting Niagara Falls as the place "Where the Great Lakes Leap to the Sea, Travel by Train." Featuring the artist Fredric C. Madan...
Photograph

Aero Cable Car

Date: 1916
Description: Slightly elevated view of people in the Whirlpool Aero Car, opened in 1916, departing from the station and crossing the whirlpool of Niagara Falls.
Photograph

Suspended Cable Car

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Description: Designed by Leonardo Torres y Quevedo and built in 1913. Elevated view looking down at people in the Whirlpool Aero Car which is crossing the 60-acre whirl...
Print

Jefferson Davis on a Tightrope

Date: 1860
Description: Jefferson Davis walks a tightrope over a waterfall heading toward the side of a cliff on which is the Capitol building, a soldier, and the Union flag. Behi...

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