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• Ice Boom preventing ice from Lake Erie entering the Niagara River - aerial view
• Sir Adam Beck 1 and 2 Power Generating Station - aerial view, Niagara River

  bottom right is the reservoir for the pump storage development
• Ontario Hydro Floral Clock
• Ontario Hydro Floral Clock - removing coins from the wishing well
• Horseshoe Falls - remedial work in progress, Canadian Niagara Power (background)

  Table Rock House (bottom right)
• Horseshoe Falls - remedial work in progress to spread out flow of water

  Table Rock House just to the right of centre in background
• Horse and Sleigh rides were available to cross the Ice Bridge in the Niagara River

  20.07 x 19.30 cm
• Horseshoe Falls seen from the observation platform at Table Rock and the Scenic Tunnels
• The American Falls from Goat Island in the winter

  Kiwanis 25.09 x 19.68 cm
• Clifton House Hotel main entrance

  7" x 5"
• Kick's Hotel presently known as The Serbian Cultural Centre, Main Street

  Also available as part of the Kiwanis Collection 10" x 8" black & white in much better condition
• Rosli Hotel, Bridge St. 1907

  also available as an 8" x 10" black & white, Kiwanis Collection, courtesy Paul Tuttle
• The Arlington Hotel circa 1890

  also available as a 10" x 8" black & white, Kiwanis Collection, courtesy of Walter Parks
• Parkside Inn - forerunner of the Foxhead Hotel ( demolished Dec. 5, 1964 )

  also available as 8" x 10" black & white, part of the Kiwanis Collection
• The Victoria Hall Hotel

  Also available as 10" x 8" black & white, part of the Kiwanis Collection
• Police Officers - beside the Niagara Suspension Bridge

  woodruff d w gilbert tom young timohy street colburn manager clifton
• Reinterment service of the 1890s, Lundy's Lane Methodist Church Niagara Falls

  BURIAL SERVICES MILITARY UNITED
• Looking up Clifton Hill, Louis Tussaud Wax Museum right, statue of Blondin suspended across road
• Lundy's Lane looking west from corner of Main Street and Ferry

  Photograph from a stereographic image
• Main Street at Ferry

  ST SLEIGH SLEIGHS HORSE HORSES SNOW ICE
• Erie Avenue at the junction of Queen Street
• City Market at rear of Town Hall, Queen Street visible in background

  NIAGARA FALLS CITY HALL SCENES
• Erie Avenue at the junction of Queen Street early 1907, Lundy Block including library to right

  The Niagara Falls Public Library moved into the Lundy Block, later the Bampfield block and even later the site of Rosberg's Department store in 1901
• Erie Avenue at the junction of Queen Street early 1900s, Lundy Block including library to right

  STREET SCENES NIAGARA FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY BAMPFIELD BLOCK
• St Patrick's Baseball club junior championship team year unknown

  BROWN BUCK CUSHMAN CROSSMAN ARMSTRONG WILSON CLARKE LOCOCO GAYNON DUMAS DICKSON PRESTIA HUDSON
• Brights Red Birds Niagara District Senior Champions and OBA semi-finalists 1938

  HILLESHEIM MUSSEL WASSER CASTLE STAEDT HARRIS HOEY WHITEHEAD CHERRIE SMITH LIPKA FORDE LISTER YOUNG QUINLAN KALBFLEISCH STEVENSON MICKEY PAIGE HARDISON THOMAS CLARK
• Niagara Falls Cricket Club District League 1928

  TEAM JACK MARSHALL LES RUNDLE GEORGE SIMPSON ANDY LISTER DAVE MCMILLAN JACK STRUT FISCHER FRANK WORRALL RIGBY P G ANDY MCLELLAN CHARLES HARMER DOCTOR DR DUGGAN WILLIAM MCCARTHY
• Niagara Falls Flyers Hockey Team Memorial Cup Champions 1964- 1965

  BERNARD PARENT BILL LONG JOHN ARBOUR TED SNELL DAVE WOODLEY GILLES MAROTTE DOUG AUSTIN FAVELL BARRY WILKINS DEREK SANDERSON GOLDSWORTHY WILLIAM DR LEIGHTON HAP EMMS GORD POWELL GUY ALLEN JEAN PRONOVOST BUD DEBRODY KEAST MIKE SHERMAN RICKY LEY BOBBY RING JIM LORENTZ ROSAIE PAIEMENT DON MARCOTTE STEVE ATKINSON BRIAN BRADLEY ANDRE LAJEUNESSE
• Niagara Falls Juniors - first junior OHA club in the city 1926

  BILL WILLIAM CODY PING PRESTIA OBS HEXIMER HOBIE ESSELTINE FAN HAUN GUERIN PECKHAM JACK MCQUESTION BILL CLARK HARVEY DON WILSON CHICK HUDSON AUBREY DICKSON PARKER FAWEL
• Knights of Columbus Baseball Team 1919

  JIMMY JAMES FARRELL FRED FREDERICK PRESTON JOE KELLY BOB HAGEN ROBERT FLOYD GEISENHOFF PHIL BOVA HENRY O'CONNOR BILL WILLIAM GAYNON LORNE FOSTER HAROLD DICKINSON HARVEY HEXIMER CLARENCE DRAGO EUGENE BRACKEN FRANK FARRELL
• Niagara Falls Centrals Senior Baseball team 1915

  Front Row: L-R Cy Heximer, Hank O'Connor, Marty Russell, Matty O'Connor, Lucky Whitney, Phil Bova ; Back Row: Paul West, Steve Whalen, Stan Delaney, Oliver Heximer, Mr Sherwood, Charlie Higgins, Andy Anderson, Hubert P Williams ;
• A game of Lacrosse - Niagara Falls Town 1888, Bridge Street Athletic Grounds

  Games is being played on Bridge Street Athletic Grounds. Photograph was taken from the wooden fire tower which stood on this site at the time ;
• Niagara Falls YMCA Harriers Running Team 1929

  LORNE ROBINSON BERT WILLIAMS CHARLES RUSSELL PETER CUTHBERT BARKER-SMITH GEORGE MORSE HARRY STEPHENS ARNOLD FARRINGTON TED SMITH EARL CANHAM BEN PRIOR HEBDON SAM RICE IVAN JAMES HOWARD TEAL KEN RAYNER GORDON FORGIE WILLIAM HOGG GORDON SADLER TED HISCOCKS JOE BACON LEN LAWRENCE
• Aerial view Oakes Garden Theatre, Sheraton Brock and Foxhead Hotels and Dominion Chain Company

  Union Bus Terminal directly in front of Sheraton Brock Hotel, Clifton Hill to the left of picture
• Rainbow Bridge, Oakes Garden, Carillon Tower and Union Bus terminal

  Union Bus Terminal demolished 1967 ;
• Aerial view showing American and Horseshoe Falls, Memorial Arch, Oakes Garden Theatre

  Memorial Arch, lower left corner of picture was removed in 1967
• General view showing Falls View Bridge, American Falls, Memorial Arch, Oakes Garden Theatre

  Memorial Arch, lower right corner of picture was removed in 1967
• Oakes Garden Theatre Niagara Falls
• The notorious front depicting tourists flocking to view the Falls of Niagara

  Original by Canadian cartoonist Duncan MacPherson ;
• Entrance to Queen Victoria Park Mowat Gate to right, Maid of the Mist booth to left

  A portion of a panoramic view from a photograph in the Public Archives of Canada ;
• Entrance to Queen Victoria Park Mowat Gate to right, Maid of the Mist booth to left

  5" x 7"
• Queen Victoria Park Refectory
• Queen Victoria Park refectory as it appeared upon completion and opening in May 1904
• Mowat Gate entrance to Queen Victoria Park probably in the early 1900's

  10 x 8
• Sir Adam Beck Chairman of Ontario Hydro June 7 1906 - August 15 1925

  Autographed bottom right corner
• Niagara Falls Collegiate Vocational Institute (N.F.C.V.I.) - class of 1894

  Front row: Garfield Broughton, Charles Hoshal, Willie Jepson, Alfred Johnson, Jim Dobbie, Burns Walker ; Second row: Jessie Logan, Carolyn Smith, unknown, unknown, D M Walker, J B Dickson Principal, Peter Currie, unknown, Lucy Byers, Sadie Henderson, Nettie Jepson ; Third Row: Norman Stanley, Jim Smeaton, Mabel Burns, unknown, Donna Burgar, unknown, Amy Durdan, next 3 unknown, Mary Dobbie, unknown, Lettie Whittaker ; Fourth Row: Cassidy Rodgers, ? Goodes, Teddy Smith, Frank Stephens, next 2 unknown, Stuart Houston, unknown, Percy Burns, Lorne Hillier ; Fifth Row: Fred Slater, Kate Edmonds, Sarah Dobbie, Alice Walker, next 4 unknown ; ;
• G Howard Ferguson Premier of Ontario and party at the Refectory Queen Victoria Park

  photograph slightly damaged
• Cyril Arthur Overall

  MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ONTARIO
• Arthur C Jolley
• View of the American Falls in Winter

  The miraculous result of a cold winter, the American Falls completely froze in 1936. Notice the tiny human forms at the base of the Falls giving an idea of the density of the ice.
• Ice conditions on the Niagara River

  Taken from the southeast roof of Ontario Power Plant.
• The observation deck at the Scenic Tunnels, Horseshoe Falls in background

  PLATFORM
• Aerial view of the Rainbow Bridge, American and Horseshoe Falls and Upper Niagara River
• Construction of the Rainbow Bridge

  probably a copy of a copy
• 1939 Royal Tour - King George VI & Queen Elizabeth

  Boy presenting flowers is David Hanniwell, location is Niagara Parks Commission Administration Building
• Hospital, Jepson Street
• Samuel Zimmerman one of the founders of Niagara Falls 1815 - 1857

  Negative available
• Bridge to Burning Springs and Clark Hill Islands

  photograph of a print from book Tugby's Illustrated guide to Niagara Falls, p. 13, published 1885
• Bridge to Cedar Island toll house, waterworks pumping station in distance on left
• River Railway Power House Horseshoe Falls in background
• Street's Pagoda, Cedar Island before the railway, note gathering of weir for water works

  Reportedly built as an observation tower on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1860
• Sutherland Macklem's toll bridge to Cynthia (Dufferin)Island
• Street's Mills present site of Toronto Power Plant Building
• Riverside Ramble also called Lover's Walk or Retreat at Dufferin Islands
• Dufferin Islands Bridge
• Crystal Palace Prospect Park
• Early photograph of the frozen falls showing Street's Mills in background
• A saloon on the ice bridge in the 1890's

  Sign on side of the shanty offers "celebrated whiskies and cigars" ;
• Photographer's shanty on the ice bridge in the early 1890's

  Negative available - Niagara Falls Ice 1
• Main Street Fire Hall in Niagara Falls

  L-R: Carl Kinnear, Fred Reaman, R Rennie, Bill Cowie, Assistant Chief Dillimus, Bill Miller, R Headge, Jack Schuman, Trum York, C S Campbell, Y Beaupit, W Dell, Bill Doyal, E Hodge? hedge? ;
• Arrival of the first motorized fire equipment Main Street Fire Hall Niagara Falls
• Main Street Fire Hall in Niagara Falls
• Canadian shore of Niagara Falls from Goat Island
• Canadian shore of Niagara Falls above Horseshoe Falls
• American Falls with cyclist in foreground with his Tricycle

  tricycle
• Prospect Point and Platt D. Babbitt's photostand

  American Falls in foreground, Horseshoe Falls in extreme background ;
• Spanish Aero Car

  Spanish Aerocar
• Whirlpool Aero Car Booth 1938-1960s

  Spanish Aerocar
• The old scow in the Upper Rapids

  The stranded scow lying in the Upper Rapids has been a fixture since August 6, 1918. It broke loose while being towed by the tug Hassayampa, after the tug went aground in the American Channel opposite Port Day, less than a mile above the Falls. ...a line was shot out from the top of the Toronto Power House. Attempts were made to rig a breeches buoy, but the lines became fouled and it was not until "Red Hill" volunteered his services that it was possible to bring the men to shore. Niagara Falls, Canada : a history of the City and the world famous beauty spot
• Red Hill Senior standing on the ice bridge 1913
• William "Red" Hill Jr and the "Thing" in which he went over the Horseshoe Falls to his death
• William Red Hill's barrel in the Whirlpool Rapids

  red hill, William hill
• Henri Rechatin walking a tight rope on the wires of the Spanish Aero Car Niagara Falls

  oversize negative available
• Blondin's bicycle

  B&W photograph
• Blondin's Wheelbarrow
• Advertisement of Stunt to be Performed by Farini - 1860

  a copy of a broadsheet
• Judy LaMarsh

  Judy LaMarsh
• Construction scene adjacent to the base of the Honeymoon Bridge
• Train of the Michigan Central at Falls View circa 1895

  The Library does not have copyright permission to display the image in this database, however it may be viewed in person at the library, upon request ;