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Title | The Saul Davis Stairway at Table Rock |
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| Creator
| Campbell, Donna Marie |
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| Type
| Still Image |
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| Description
| Horseshoe Falls to the left ; |
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| Medium
| Watercolour |
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| Extent
| 25.1 x 35.46 cm |
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| Call Number
| WC 9 |
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| Is Part of
| Watercolour Collection |
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| Subject
| Table Rock |
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| Elevators |
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| Niagara Gorge |
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| Niagara Falls - Horseshoe Falls |
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| Place Name
| Canada (nation) |
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| Notes
| Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Government of Canada Local Initiatives Grant AK 2403-9 1974 - 1975 ; research by George Seibel ; artistic recreation from a stereograph in the collection of the Earl W Brydges Public Library, Niagara Falls, NY ; William Forsyth in 1818 erected a set of stairs under a roof to facilitate access to the view of the Falls at the foot of the great pitch under the river bank. Frances M Trollope wrote in 1832 "...during our stay we saw the commencement of another staircase intended to rival in attraction that at present in use (probably Forsyth's)..The erection of the central shaft at this spiral stair was a most tremendous operation and made me sick and giddy as I watched it. After it had been made fast at the bottom, the carpenters swung themselves off the rocks by means of ropes to the beams which traversed it and as they sat across them, in the midst of the spray and the uproar, I thought I had never seen life perilled so wantonly". This stairway was built by Saul Davis after he built the Table Rock House in 1854 ; |
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| Place Name
| Niagara Falls (waterfall) |
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| Publisher
| Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation |
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| Date
| ca 1860 |
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| ca 1975 (reproduction) |
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| Record ID |
102822 |
| Digital image |
| Format |
image/jpeg |
| Size |
750px X 1060px |
| Resolution |
150ppi X 150ppi |
| Digitization |
Colour Scan |
| Equipment |
Vidar Truscan Titan Atlas Wide-Format |
| Date |
2005-02-24 |
| Notes |
Funded by a donation from Scotia Bank Niagara Falls. Image scanned by MES. |
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