Digital Collection of Niagara Falls Guidebooks from the 19th Century

Coasting Below the American Falls

Welcome to the
Digital Collection of Niagara Falls Guidebooks from the 19th Century

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)
Pictorial Guide to the Falls of Niagara by J.W. Orr (1842)
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 Falls of Niagara by George W. Holley (1883)
The Niagara Book by W.D. Howells, Mark Twain, Prof. Nathaniel S. Shaler, and Others (1893)
A New Guide to Niagara Falls And Vicinity published by Rand NcNally (1895)

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)