Stunt performers -- Niagara Falls -- N.Y. and Ont.

Folder contains postcards to past local history department head, photographs, and documents created by and relating to Phillippe Petit. Petit was a French daredevil and artist who walked on a tight rope between the Twin Towers in New York City and who walked on a tight rope across Niagara Gorge in 1986 performing as Blondin. Folder also contains a biographical sketch, news clippings, autographed pamphlets, and other documents. Folder has about 36 to 38 items

Folder contains a pamphlet from one of Phillippe Petit's performances in Frankfurt and includes histories and photographs of his past stunts.

Letters to Donald Loker from Philippe Petit, who walked over the Falls. Contains numerous autographs of Petit and correspondence between Loker and Petit.

Photos of Phillipe Petit

Photographic negatives of various subjects, including advertisements, bridges, buildings, hotels, houses, daredevils, Niagara Falls, parades, notable figures, power company, prospect park, military, Niagara River, schools, stores, streets, cars, house & carriage, ships, trains & streetcars, and Zonta club

Sleeved photographs of various scenes around Niagara Falls.

A 1947 edition of the Buffalo Courier-Express Pictorial with photographs of various tightrope walkers crossing the falls, an 11.25x11.25x0.5 framed photograph and Christmas greeting of (and from) Guglielmo Marconi, and an unbound copy of Rider Television Manual Volume 4

Photographic prints created by Samuel M Golden including images found in older photos in which Taylor poses with barrel, is helped out of the barrel and to shore, and in the barrel before going over Niagara Falls.

Photographic prints and several facsimiles of photographs showing Annie Edson Taylor, who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel

Photographic prints showing Taylor getting out of the barrel and being guided ashore after she went over Niagara Falls.