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W.J. Kendall, the Boston policeman.
This cigar shaped barrel was designed for a trip over the Falls but it was sent over with only a cat as occupant to test its strength on Dec. 13, 1910, and smashed as shown.
Carlisle D. Graham and William J. Glover, Jr., left their clothes behind and leaped into the Niagara rapids for a race to Lewiston in 1901.
The last photo taken of Mrs. Taylor previous to her trip over the Horseshoe Fall. Mrs. Taylor did not leave the barrel after the picture was taken until rescued below the Falls. The men in the picture are William Halloran and Fred Truesdale, who towed her out into the Canadian current.
Cap’t Larsen, Conqueror of the Whirlpool Rapids, Sep. 18th, 1910. Captain Klaus Larsen, on September 18, 1910, went through the rapids in this gasoline engine boat, which he described as “a peach.”
No. 677. One misstep and certain death awaits him on the jagged rocks 600 feet below-Prof. Ivy Baldwin on the high wire at Eldorado Springs, Colo.
Niagara Falls & Blondin. A Guide & Souvenir. With a new Series of Views from Photographs taken [by Evans] on the Spot to which is added a Complete Guide in both French and Spanish Published by Sage Sons & Co., Arcade Building, Buffalo, N.Y. The twelve lithos are included but the Guide Book is not.
No. 5. View of the Entire Falls, from Victoria Point.
No. 6. American Falls & Steamer Maid of the Mist.
No. 7. Blondin’s Ascension before the Prince of Wales.
No. 8. View of the Rapids, Opposite the Cataract House.
8123-“Dare Devil Tilden.” Leaping from Bicycle in Mid-air into Tank of Water, Cincinnati, Ohio.