The Niagara Falls Local History Department is a research library containing extensive collections of books, photographs, maps, newspapers, videotapes, scrapbooks, and clipping files about Niagara Falls, both city and the cataract. These materials document the history of the Niagara Falls area from before the founding of the villages of Niagara Falls (1848), Niagara City (1854), (Suspension Bridge) and the present day Niagara Falls.
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Women at the Goat Island overlook
Large group of women at the Goat Island overlook near Luna Island.
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People of Niagara Falls
Images of various people of Niagara Falls, NY from the Orrin E. Dunlap Glass Plate Negative Collection. Orrin E. Dunlap...
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Three turbines in Power Station #2
Three turbines in Power Station #2, lower banks, floor under construction.
Three men on steel beam, Power Station #2
Three men wearing hats and standing on steel beam, Power Station #2. Men to the right are working.
