English: Samuel John Dixon crossing the Niagara Gorge above the Whirlpool Rapids on September 6, 1890. According to "The Photographic Times" (1891), Dixon walked a three quarter-inch wire stretched across the Whirlpool Rapids. The cable was from 300 to 400 feet above the water, and stretched about 400 feet in length. The "perilous journey" was completed in 17 minutes. During his tight rope walk, he performed various antics, including lying at full length across the wire. John C. Hemment, a well known photographer, took pictures of Dixon during his walk.

Identifier: americanannualof1892newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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o aWS aoo HOPC Cm H WJ H < AND PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES ALMANAC. 215 RAPID PHOTOGRAPHY. The American Annual of Photography must circulate everywhere. During the past year I have been called upon,many times, for practical information in regard to my methods of making rapid exposures, and, I am sorry to say, my time has been so taken up that it has been impossible for me to reply to these numerous inquiries, which were, undoubtedly,addressed to me because of the article which I wrote for last year's Annual. The description which I will now give, may,in part, atone for this seeming neglect. The photograph of Mr. S. J. Dixon walking on a wire rope stretched across the river below Niagara Falls, was made with a plate that I had never before tried. What sort of a plate it proved to be will be determined by looking at the reproduction. While in Buffalo at the late P. A. of A. Convention, Mr. Carbutt gave me samples of his orthochromatic plates. I had exposed all of the plates which I took with meto Buffa

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