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Vintage American Archives for Niagara Falls postcard

Niagara Falls postcard

Horsehoe Falls Vintage Niagara Falls Postcard

August 15, 2010 by Annie Rose

This 1910 vintage postcard view of the Horseshoe Falls from Goat Island at Niagara Falls is quite beautiful. The postcard has been printed from a painting of the falls with lovely colors in the spray and background. The Horseshoe Falls, so named for their shape being that of a horseshoe, are the largest of the […]

Filed Under: Lakes and Rivers, Niagara Falls Tagged With: Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls postcard, old postcards, postcard, vintage postcards, waterfalls, white water

Niagara Falls Illuminated at Night Vintage Postcard

August 14, 2010 by Annie Rose

Here you see Prospect Point on Niagara Falls under illumination by floodlight in 1939. This was a new feature at the falls as the postcard relates on the back. When the new floodlights are marching across the Falls, and resting on either or both of the American and Canadian faces of them or playing in […]

Filed Under: Lakes and Rivers, Niagara Falls Tagged With: Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls postcard, old postcards, postcard, vintage postcards

Vintage Niagara Falls Postcard View of the Horsehoe and American Falls

August 14, 2010 by Annie Rose

This vintage Niagara Falls postcard is dated 1942, showing a view of both the Horseshoe and American falls from the Niagara River Gorge entrance. If you look closely you can see the old Maid of the Mist boats in the water. Notice the white water and eddies created by the force of water from the […]

Filed Under: Lakes and Rivers, Niagara Falls Tagged With: Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls postcard

Summer at Niagara Falls Vintage Postcard

August 14, 2010 by Annie Rose

This vintage Niagara Falls postcard shows three paintings of the Falls area one in a rectangular golden square, one in a golden circle, and the third in a golden triangle. It is a pretty postcard and old, pre-1907, with undivided back. The words sent to loved one or friend must be written on the front, […]

Filed Under: Lakes and Rivers, Niagara Falls Tagged With: Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls postcard, old postcards, postcard, vintage postcards, waterfalls, white water

Niagara Falls and Coke Ovens Vintage Postcard

August 14, 2010 by Annie Rose

One wonders why a postcard like this was printed? What do Niagara Falls and Coke Ovens in Pennsylvania have to do with each other? Interestingly, in the early 1900s, this type of postcard was not unusual. Postcards were often advertisements to promote America in different ways. This vintage postcard is actually a promotion of not […]

Filed Under: Advertisements, Lakes and Rivers, Niagara Falls, Pennsylvania Tagged With: Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls postcard, old postcards, postcard, vintage postcards

View of Niagara Falls from the Maid of the Mist Vintage Postcard

August 14, 2010 by Annie Rose

This 1910 vintage postcard shows a view of Niagara Falls from the deck of the Maid of the Mist tour boat. Today, you can still board the Maid of the Mist donning plastic rain slickers and hats to see Niagara Falls from the base of each waterfall. This postcards says that in 1910, On of […]

Filed Under: Lakes and Rivers, Niagara Falls Tagged With: Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls postcard, old postcards, postcard, vintage postcards, waterfalls, white water

Vintage Niagara Falls Postcard of the American Falls

August 14, 2010 by Annie Rose

This vintage Niagara Falls Postcard from 1910 shows the American Falls and the International Railway Bridge across the Niagara River. The International Railway Bridge, built in 1873 by the International Bridge Company, allows trains to cross the Niagara River between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. The construction of this bridge at this point […]

Filed Under: Bridges, Lakes and Rivers, Niagara Falls, Trains and Tracks Tagged With: locomotive, Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls postcard, old locomotives, old postcards, postcard, vintage postcards

Bridal Veil Falls Vintage Niagara Falls Postcard

August 14, 2010 by Annie Rose

This vintage Niagara Falls postcard shows Bridal Veil Falls on the American side with the Cave of the Winds behind it. Although this postcard is newer and brighter than the Cave of the Winds postcard, it is still older than 1920 because we see the bridge to the Cave of the Winds allowing people to […]

Filed Under: Bridges, Lakes and Rivers, Niagara Falls Tagged With: Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls postcard, old postcards, postcard, vintage postcards, waterfalls, white water

Cave of the Winds Vintage Niagara Falls Postcard

August 14, 2010 by Annie Rose

This is a very old postcard, dated 1900, showing a lithograph of the Cave of the Winds at Niagara Falls, New York. The Cave of the Winds was actually a hollowed out cave behind Bridal Veil Falls on the American side of the Niagara Falls. At the time of this postcard, people could reach the […]

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