Maps and Pictures 



Der Niagara fluss. Verlag d. Englishen Kinstantalt v. A. H. Payne. No date 

 Leipzig and Dresden. 



This print shows a bridge across the upper river and the American Fall 

 as a great smooth sheet. Goat Island is also visible. 



Edwards, Ernest. Niagara; photo-gravures from originals. Troy: Edwards 

 Nims and Knight. N. d. 

 Exquisite. 



LoTTER, MATTHIEU Albert. Carte nouvelle de l'Amerique Angloise Loiter 

 contenant tout ce que les Anglois possedent sur le Continent de l'ArHerique 

 Septentrionale savoir le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse ou Acadie, les treize 

 Provinces unies. . . . avec la Floride. Gravee exactment d'apres les 

 determinations geographiques dernierement faites par Matthieu Albert 

 Lotter a Augsburg. 



Summary 



It may be truthfully said that no natural wonder of our world 

 has been more universally pictured than Niagara Falls. The 

 views have taken a multiplicity of form — maps, panoramas, 

 engravings, wood-cuts, aqua-tints, paintings, lithographs. The 

 earliest view, which was accepted as the correct conception of 

 Niagara for one hundred fifty years was the famous Hennepin 

 picture of 1 697, known to all students of Niagara, and it is a 

 curious fact that the inaccuracies of this picture persisted as a 

 model for other artists, long after Lieutenant Pierie's more real 

 conception had been presented to the world. 



Many of the old maps of the eighteenth century, drawn for a 

 world anxious and interested to know something of the new 

 hemisphere, contain a record of Niagara Falls, although in many 

 cases this is only a break in the river with not even the name 

 attached. Some of these old maps contain curious and interest- 

 ing insets giving the popular views of the Falls. 



In the nineteenth century, the popularity of the panoramic 

 views of the Falls in England and the United States gave the 

 most widely disseminated knowledge as to their real appear- 

 ance. In our own day, in books and magazines, views of the 

 Falls under all aspects are usual and common. There are many 



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