(NEW YORK NIAGARA) The Chinese Pagoda and Camera Obscura in

Sale 2310 - Lot 210

Price Realized: $ 960

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400

(NEW YORK--NIAGARA.) The Chinese Pagoda and Camera Obscura in Point View Garden. Letterpress broadside, 11 x 8 3/4 inches; moderate foxing and wear including three small holes at folds. Buffalo, NY: Faxon & Stevens, 1847

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An advertising circular for a 75-foot structure overlooking the falls. For 25 cents, visitors could see the broad sweep of the falls and surrounding countryside, and also have use of the attached gardens. It includes two poems by "Almira" on the pagoda's construction and completion, 1843 and 1844; a short description by proprietor Charles Robinson; and a longer quote from the New York Morning Express. Brown University has a broadside with the same date and title, but containing different poems. The present version is unrecorded in Dow or elsewhere, and possibly unique.