Prospect Park and Niagara Falls in Winter
Collection: Landscapes
Title
Prospect Park and Niagara Falls in Winter
Subject
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
Description
On verso:
No. 228. PROSPECT PARK AND NIAGARA FALLS IN WINTER.
The nearest and most comprehensive view of the mighty Niagara Falls is had from Prospect Park, which is on the American side next to the falling waters. At Prospect Park we stand only a couple of feet above the American stream, just where it makes its smooth downward curve. We might touch it with our hands, as it bends, solid and glassy, over the long ledge of rock. We can lean on the rails and note how soon its polished surface breaks into silvery fragments, powders into glistening dust ; and far beneath we can see the frosty mass strike the black boulders and over and between them, flow off as frosted torrents into the dark green flood of the gorge.
From a distance the American Falls look quite straight. When we stand beside it, we see that its lines curve inward and outward. As we gaze down upon these, every change in the angle of vision and in the strength and direction of the light gives a new effect.
A8523
Creator
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1903
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
228
Citation
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)], “Prospect Park and Niagara Falls in Winter,” Digital Canton, accessed November 21, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/539.
Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches
Title
Prospect Park and Niagara Falls in Winter
Subject
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
Description
On verso:
No. 228. PROSPECT PARK AND NIAGARA FALLS IN WINTER.
The nearest and most comprehensive view of the mighty Niagara Falls is had from Prospect Park, which is on the American side next to the falling waters. At Prospect Park we stand only a couple of feet above the American stream, just where it makes its smooth downward curve. We might touch it with our hands, as it bends, solid and glassy, over the long ledge of rock. We can lean on the rails and note how soon its polished surface breaks into silvery fragments, powders into glistening dust ; and far beneath we can see the frosty mass strike the black boulders and over and between them, flow off as frosted torrents into the dark green flood of the gorge.
From a distance the American Falls look quite straight. When we stand beside it, we see that its lines curve inward and outward. As we gaze down upon these, every change in the angle of vision and in the strength and direction of the light gives a new effect.
A8523
Creator
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1903
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
228
Citation
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)], “Prospect Park and Niagara Falls in Winter,” Digital Canton, accessed November 21, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/539.Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches