Title

Prospect Park and Niagara Falls in Winter

Description

en-CA Back description: The nearest and most comprehensive view of the mighty Niagara Falls is had from Prospect Park, which is on the American side next to the falling waters. At Prospect park we stand only a couple of feet above the American stream, just where it makes its smooth downward curve. We might touch it with our hands, as it bends, solid and glassy, over the long ledge of rock. We can lean on the rails and note how soon its polished surface breaks into silvery fragments, powders into glistening dust; and far beneath we can see the frosty mass strike black boulders and over and between them, flow off as frosted torrents into the dark green flood of gorge. From a distance the American Falls look quite straight. When we stand beside it, we see that its lines curve inward and outward. As we gaze down upon these, every change in the angle of vision and in the strength and direction of the light gives a new effect.

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=366153

Creator

Unknown

Type

Still Image

Is Part Of

General Photograph Collection

Extent

3.5" by 7"

Medium

Stereographic image

Provenance

Unknown

Date

Circa early 1900's

Subject

Niagara Falls - American Falls

Niagara Falls - Horseshoe Falls

Winter Scenes - Niagara

Prospect Point

Spatial Coverage

United States - New York - Niagara Falls

Source

Niagara Falls (Ont.) Public Library

number

D503729

Format

Stereographic image

Date Created

2012-07-28

Date Modified

2012-07-28