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Original 1909 CAVE OF THE WINDS GOAT ISLAND Brochure Niagara Falls New York Map
$ 7.91
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Description
Original fold-out 1909 advertising brochure for Cave of the Winds and Goat Island New York State Reservation, printed more than 110 years ago.This brochure opens to 6½" x 10" and has a panoramic photo of the falls, with the Rainbow Bridge, Rock of Ages, and text on the Dressing Room opposite the Biddle Stairway.
On the reverse side there's a map of Goat Island locating Cave of the Winds, Luna Island, and Horseshoe Falls.
A text panel gives a history of Goat Island and the Cave of the Winds, "the Crown Jewel in Niagara's diadem of splendors."
Condition:
This vintage brochure is in
excellent condition
, bright and clean, with
no
rips, tears, or writing. Please see the scans and feel free to ask any questions.
It is copyrighted
© 1909
by George E. Wright, Niagara Fall, New York.
Ten years after this brochure was printed three vistors to the cave were killed when rock suddenly fell from the ceiling. Continuing erosion at the site and worries about the collapse of the ledge at the entrance to the cave led to its closure and destruction by a controlled dynamite blast in 1955.
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