Location: Ontario--Niagara Falls - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of the American side of Niagara Falls as viewed from atop a rooftop on the Canadian side. The American falls are on the right side of the image. The Niagara River extends from the lower right corner, through the center of the photograph. A snow covered road lined with utility poles and lines runs along the left side of the image.
Date:: January, 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of a man hunching over to shovel snow off of the sidewalk on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. He stands at center and faces towards the right. A parapet runs behind him from the right and into the distance at left. It is made of stone and decorative metal. Snow blankets the ground on the left.
Date:: January, 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of a car parked in front of the customs and checking station at the Canadian border in Niagara Falls. A car, right-of-center, is parked in partial view in front of a customs building. It is viewed at an angle from the rear and side, facing right and extending out-of-frame at right. The rear, passenger suicide door is open towards the right. On the rear of the car, 2 license plates read, "015 · 277 [??] 47," and "[???] 19 J 98." Behind the car, the checking and customs building at Niagara Falls is viewed close-up. It stretches across the background and extends beyond the left and right frames. The roof of the building extends beyond the front of the building, overhanging over the driveway. On the left side of the building, an office door stands open. To the left of the door, large windows stand in a row that extends out-of-frame. Etched onto the windows, it reads, "[...]DIAN," and "IMMIGRATION."
Date:: October, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of a group of soldiers in the near distance marching up a snowy road toward the photographer on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. The front facade of the Table Rock House stands at left. Behind the soldiers at left, what is now the Illumination building stands in the distance. Based on the orientation of this image, the falls would be off-camera to the right. A sign on the building at left reads, "TABLE ROCK [unreadable] FALLS."
Date:: January, 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of a Canadian port of entry and customs in Niagara Falls, as viewed at a distance. A wide road spans the width of the image across the foreground and into the mid-ground. In the distance, the gated entry into Canada stretches across the middle of the image. Four customs booths stand equidistant across the station. Gates sit between the booths. Signage on the front of the booths reads, "CANADA CUSTOMS STOP." Behind the border crossing station, the road continues into the distance at center. Houses and trees are visible in the background.
Date:: October, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of a rooftop view looking north along the Niagara River (far right) on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. A snow covered road runs parallel to the river and is lined on its left by utility lines. In the distance left-of-center the Illumination building stands. A brick chimney rises in the foreground at left.
Date:: January, 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of Mertie West standing behind a parapet and looking out towards Horseshoe Falls (or Canadian Falls) at Niagara Falls. The scene is viewed from an elevated perspective. Mertie West stands, left-of-center, on the near side of a parapet and with her back to camera. The parapet stretches across the image, in front of Mertie. In the distance and at a lower elevation, the Niagara River (right) cascades over Horseshoe Falls, left-of-center. Mist from the falls rises up from the basin. On the far side of the falls and beyond the mist, at left, Niagara Falls, New York is visible.
Date:: October, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of Mertie West standing behind a parapet and looking out towards Horseshoe Falls (or Canadian Falls) at Niagara Falls. The scene is viewed from an elevated perspective. Mertie West stands at center, on the near side of a parapet and with her back to camera. To the left of her, a viewing scope stands. The parapet stretches across the image, in front of Mertie. In the distance and at a lower elevation, the Niagara River (right) cascades over Horseshoe Falls at center. Mist from the falls rises up from the basin at center. On the far side of the falls, at left, Niagara Falls, New York is visible.
Date:: October, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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