Details
Contributor J. Sage & Sons, printer.
Title Cataract House, Niagara Falls. [graphic] : Whitney, Geraud & Co., proprietors.
Publisher Buffalo: J. Sage & Sons
Publisher N.Y. Buffalo. 1860
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving on stone mounted on paper; 6 x 9 cm.(2.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Trade card showing the exterior of the three-story hotel originally built in 1825 near the falls. Also shows the ca. 1835 addition and outbuilding on the bank of the falls in the foreground. Gen. Parkhurst Whitney purchased the hotel in 1831 and leased it to Whitney, Jeraud & Co. in 1846.
Notes Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Forms part of Scrapbook of Ephemera [8608.F].
Subject Cataract House (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)
Hotels -- New York -- Niagara Falls.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Trade cards -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Scrapbook [8608.F.16f]
Accession number 8608.F.16f