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At Niagara Falls


1901 Harper’s Weekly cover showing a man being pushed off a ship labeled "United States" while figures watch from the deck.
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Title

At Niagara Falls

Subject

Niagara Falls (N.Y.)--Pictorial works
McKinleyWilliam1843-1901

Description

The cover of Harper’s Weekly dated October 5, 1901, features an illustration of a man being pushed off a ship labeled "United States" by a figure dressed in a suit and top hat. Several other figures look on from the ship’s deck, and American flags are visible in the background.

Creator

Dunlap, Orrin E.

Source

From the Presidential Files collection of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress ©1901 Orin Dunlap. (H9017 U.S. Copyright Office.) Also appeared in the Buffalo Courier, September 15, 1901. Also appeared in The American Monthly Review of Reviews, vol.24, no.4 (October 1901) p. 417.

Date

1901-09-06

Rights

Type

Image
Photographic prints

Identifier

LIB-005_0351

Coverage

Niagara Falls (N.Y.)

Alternative Title

McKinley and his entourage visit Goat Island, at Niagara Falls on the morning of Sept. 6, 1901.

Is Part Of

Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901
LIB-005

Citation

Dunlap, Orrin E., “At Niagara Falls,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed October 26, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/index.php/items/show/95293.