Title

Official guide to Niagara - Joel Robinson's daring feat

Description

LCN 10167844

Black & white scan from book ; date circa 1860

en-CA Scan from the book Official Guide Niagara Falls, River. Electric, Historic, Geologic, Hydraulic by Peter A. Porter with illustrations by Charles D Arnold published 1901 ; "...about 1860, in order to show that even Niagara had no terrors for him (a fact which he had proved in many instances), took his iron-pointed staff in his hands and waded out toward the opposite shore as shown in the illustration, and planting his staff firmly in a crevice of the rock assumed the pose and motioned to the waiting photographer to take this absolutely unique photograph of an incident at Niagara" ;

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=91195

Medium

Scan from book

Is Part Of

Niagara Falls Public Library Local History Collection

locator

LHC - 917.4799 P847

Rights Holder

©Niagara Falls Public Library

Subject

Stunts and Stunters

Niagara Falls - American Falls

Spatial Coverage

Canada - Ontario

number

D11862

Format

Scan from book

Date Created

2003-07-03

Date Modified

2005-01-20