Niagara Falls

Photographs and newspaper clippings showing Ice Bridges and people walking on the frozen Niagara River. Some photographs are reproductions of newspaper articles, also present are newspaper clippings. A number of images related to the ice bridge tragedy of 1912.

Photographs and documents describing the Ice Bridge break in 1912 that killed two people. Present in the folder is descriptive correspondence from a donor. One photo shows a child on the ice bridge on the same day as the tragedy, other photographs show prints of the ice bridge made from lantern slides. Consider removing the donor correspondence information.

Photographs showing and text describing various ice jams. Photographs show the frozen river, damage caused by ice jams including the Niagara Falls Power Plant damage in 1938. Formats includes various photo prints

Photographs showing ice jams on the upper Niagara River. Photographs include efforts to break up ice jams near the Niagara Power Project. Also present are newspaper clippings and photo descriptions.

Photographs show ice jams, blasting to remove ice, the Mouth of Lake Ontario, and other Ice Jam related issues and destruction of boats, docks, and other buildings. Present are various photographic materials, text descriptions, and news clippings

Photographs and newspaper clippings showing a large Ice Mountain or Ice Mounds at the base of the American Falls in the winter

Photographs of ice palace near the Niagara River between 1898 and 1900. The ice palace was on the edge of the Falls in the Niagara Falls State Reservation and was made of crystal ice. It was illuminated for tourists at night. Formats includes photographic prints and documents

Photographs showing Niagara Falls in the winter, including the State Reservation and Goat Island. Photo prints and newspaper clippings / text description are present.

Photographs showing winter scenery of Goat Island and the American Falls during an ice jam

Sleeved magazine article about the Niagara Falls illumination, a history of illumination of the falls, and brochures for Oxylights