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A photograph of an aging John L. Sullivan, famous boxer.

This is an image of a cigarette package that also includes a paragraph about and an image of a baseball player, Christy Matthewson.

The Celebrated Trotting Mare Lady Thorn, Formerly "Maid of Ashland."

Lady Thorn, is a bay mare, 16 hands and 1 inch high, raised by Col Wm Dunlap, of Kentucky. She was got by the Famous Horse Mambrino Chief out of a thoroughbred mare : By Gano…

A shallow silver dish purchased by Jim and Marie Palsir during their 1963 honeymoon to Niaraga Falls.

Copy of Father Hennepin's 1677 sketch of Niagara Falls, reprinted in 1870s. From "American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil" by Rev Samuel Manning, circa 1880.

"As his fame increased, Sam was offered $75 by a group of hotel owners to jump at the Niagara Falls in October 1829. No one had ever survived a jump at Niagara. Sam’s jump was scheduled for October 6, but he arrived too late to make the jump, so it…

Advertisement for ‘Indian Curiosity Store’, circa 1855. First Nations goods were popular sale items in the 19th century Niagara Falls. Thomas Barnett, museum proprietor at the Falls, hired Native women to create souvenirs in front of his Museum and…

On September 21, 1840, someone by the name of Rose, from Rochester, New York penned a letter to her aunt Clara, describing a recent trip to Niagara Falls. In the letter she describes her excursion to both the Canadian and American sides of the Falls…