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Title

Niagara Falls [graphic material] / 

Arrangement structure

Date(s)

1854.]

Place of creation

Massachusetts

Publisher

Littel, Son and Company

Extent

1 print : b.& w. 16 x 12 cm on sheet 25 x 17 cm.

Language of material

English

Conditions of access

Item no. (creator)
Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection # 655
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
655 Item no. assigned by LAC 655
90: Open
Archival reference no.
Other accession no.
80101/245 CA

Terms of use

Credit Library and Archives Canada.
Copyright expired

Creator / Provenance

Additional information

Steel engraving by J.C. Buttre.

Includes the following four line poem in the title block. " In musing awe; should tread this wonderous world, see all its store of inland waters hurl'd in one vast volume down Niagara's steep or calm behold them in transparent sleep"

From Littell's Living Age. Boston, New York & Philadelphia: Littel, Son and Company, 1854.

Custodial history
Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Cartographic math data
Scale indeterimate.

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

4434181