Editorial comment for this plate:

THE CANADIAN FALL.

IN the Christmas number of THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES for 1888 we presented our readers, among other illustrations, with a picturesque view of Niagara Falls in winter, from an excellent negative by John E. Dumont, of Rochester. We have now the pleasure of giving them an equally pictorial view of the Canadian Fall, from a negative by Ernest Edwards, President of the New York Photogravure Company.

Those who are in attendance at the Convention of the P. A. of A., in Buffalo, and will participate in the excursion to the Falls, will be especially interested in this artistic view of the Canadian Fall.

The excellent photogravure, while rendering the negative in a most satisfactory manner, does not reproduce the “emerald wall of the great horse-shoe,” though those who have beheld the gigantic cataract itself can easily supply the color by looking at this photographic reproduction. The margin of trees in the foreground gives distance to the Falls and proves a pleasing innovation, though somewhat diminishing the apparent height of the cataract.

Altogether this view of the Canadian Fall, though somewhat unusual, is very satisfactory, and will make an appropriate companion to the Niagara in Winter presented in these columns in 1888, and an interesting souvenir of the Convention now being held at Buffalo.

Ernest Edwards: 1837-1903