Title

Ice mountain Niagara Falls N.Y.

Description

Niagara Falls in Winter

from stereo image no.7031 by Keystone Views

en-CA The boys have enjoyed the ice mountain throughly. In fact there has not been such good sliding there since the famous Winter of 1879. Some who have strong clothes sit down on the ice and glide off. Some use a piece of board for a sled. Some stand up and go down, in a perpendicular position, while some have tried real sleds. These latter are more dangerous, so steep is the grade and so swiftly do they go. The best sleds ever invented for this kind of sliding are made of six barrel staves ... Niagara Falls Gazette February 22, 1888

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=89395

Medium

Photograph

Extent

4.75" x 6" black & white

Provenance

Earl Brydges Public Library, Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Date

1888

Is Part Of

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection

locator

v.5a p.22

Rights

Earl W. Brydges Public Library

Subject

Niagara River - Ice

Niagara River - Lower

Niagara Falls - General

Spatial Coverage

Canada - Ontario

number

D10231

Format

Photograph

Date Created

2002-08-29

Date Modified

2005-01-20