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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Niagara Daredevils 1986 Calendar, 1986

 Item
Identifier: Box 1
Scope and Contents

Calendar for the year showing notable daredevils associated with Niagara Falls.

Dates: 1986

Niagara Falls Gazette Newspaper Clippings, 1888-1988

 Box — Box SC2340: Series Series 3 [Barcode: SC2340]
Identifier: Series 3
Scope and Contents

Photocopied and original newspaper clippings organized by subject in different envelopes. Subjects include stunt performers and tragedies at the Falls and the Niagara River and Bell Aerosystems. Sources include Niagara Falls Gazette and other regional newspapers like the Buffalo Times (HAI 2022).

Dates: 1888-1988

Orrin E. Dunlap, Daredevil Article, 1947, 1947

 File
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

Folder containing a 1947 edition of the Buffalo Courier-Express Pictorial with photographs of various tightrope walkers crossing the falls. Includes oversized materials.

Dates: 1947

Orrin E. Dunlap's Interview with Anna Edison Taylor (Folder D-1), 1901

 Box — Box W-3: Series Series 1; Series Series 2 [Barcode: SC2227]
Identifier: File D-1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Topics of manuscripts are many and include: stunters, bridges, individuals, schools, hotels, Native Americans, Local History, television, famous visitors to NF and more.

Dates: 1901

Over the Falls; Annie Edson Taylor's Story of Her Trip ; How the Horseshoe Falls was Conquered, 1902

 Item — Carton 198: [Barcode: SC0432]
Identifier: Item 10
Scope and Contents From the Box:

18 Books: Autographs books, books about Niagara Falls, Hallowed out book, other miscellaneous books (6 folder listed under Folder Level Inventory) (HAI 2020)

Dates: 1902

Photos - Annie Taylor - Annie Taylor (Sam Golden), circa 1901

 File
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: circa 1901

Photos - Annie Taylor - Taylor being helped ashore, circa 1901

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Scope and Contents

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

Dates: circa 1901

Photos - Annie Taylor -- Taylor Being helped out of the Barrel, circa 1901

 File
Scope and Contents

Facsimile of a photograph showing Taylor getting out of the barrel.

Dates: circa 1901

Photos - Annie Taylor -- Taylor In her barrel, circa 1901

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Scope and Contents

Photographic prints showing Taylor in her barrel in the river before going over Niagara Falls.

Dates: circa 1901