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Title

S.J.Dixon, crossing Whirlpool Rapids on a 7/8 inch wire cable. 

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Item (linked) part of

Garry Lowe collection [graphic material] (R10430-0-2-E)

Bilingual equivalent

S.J. Dixon en train de traverser les rapides de Whirlpool sur un câble métallique de 7/8 de pouce

Date(s)

17 July 1891

Place

Niagara Falls, Ont.

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 photograph ; 2 - 79 x 76 mm. images on a 87 x 177 mm. card
Positive Paper Silver - gelatine

Language of material

English

Conditions of access

Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Nil
Graphic (photo)
Copy negative PA-143309
90: Open
Graphic (photo)
Colour transparency PA-143309
90: Open
Item no. (creator)
93
Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Box
3964
90: Open
Other accession no.
1978-094 NPC

Terms of use

Credit: Charles Bierstadt/Library and Archives Canada/PA-143309
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Photographer: Bierstadt, Charles.

Additional information

Facsimile featured in "Apercu Over the Edge: Our Fascination with Niagara Falls," June 1991.

Dixon, a Toronto photographer, stretched his rope across the gorge immediately north of the Michigan Central Cantilever Bridge.

Sepia transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions
Sold only by Underwood & Underwood

Subject heading

1. Dixon, S.J.
2. Sports & Amusements - Gymnastics.
3. Services - Photographic - Stereographs.
4. Ont. - Niagara Falls - Waterways.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

DAPDCAP10510

MIKAN no.

3191743