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New floes sweep over falls to add weight to jam squeezing 700-foot building, Ice blocks are pouring over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara again to-day as rising winds blow down Lake Erie
New floes sweep over falls to add weight to jam squeezing 700-foot building, Ice blocks are pouring over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara again to-day as rising winds blow down Lake Erie

New floes sweep over falls to add weight to jam squeezing 700-foot building, Ice blocks are pouring over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara again to-day as rising winds blow down Lake Erie

Date1/29/1938
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Original Toronto Star caption: New floes sweep over falls to add weight to jam squeezing 700-foot building; Ice blocks are pouring over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara again to-day as rising winds blow down Lake Erie.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object NumberTSPA_0106853F
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      Unknown
      1910
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      James Thomson (Firm, Niagara Falls, N.Y.)
      1860
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      1860
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      Illustrated Postal Card Co.
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