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Digital Collection of Niagara Falls Guidebooks from the 19th Century

The Digital Collection of Niagara Falls Guidebooks from the 19th Century was made possible by an RBDB grant from the Western New York Library Resources Council. 

  • A Ride to Niagara in 1809 by T.C. (reprinted 1915)
  • Steele's Book of Niagara Falls by Oliver G. Steele (1840) 
  • Burke's Descriptive Guide: or the Visitors' Companion to Niagara Falls (1851)
  • Guide to Niagara Falls and its Scenery by B.F. Johnson (1863)
  • A Complete Record Of Niagara Falls and Vicinage by Thos. Holder (1882)
  • The Niagara Book by W.D. Howells, Mark Twain, Prof. Nathaniel S. Shaler, and Others (1893)
Other Web Sites
  • A Niagara Falls Tourist of the Year 1817: Being the Journal of Richard Langslow of the Honorable East India Service (from Cornell Library New York State Historical Collection)

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