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The Niagara Belt Line

Title:
The Niagara Belt Line
Full Title:
The Niagara Belt Line. Around the Falls and Through the Famous Gorge.
Collection:
Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
Creator:
Green, Hiram Harold
Date:
1917
Date posted:
2017-04-14
ID Number:
2209.01
Identifier:
PJM_2209_01.jpg
Subject:
Advertising & Promotion
Pictorial
Unusual Projection
Extent:
(cm, H x W) 81 x 21 sheet
Collector's Notes:
This panoramic bird's-eye view is a promotional map for the Niagara Belt Line, an electric trolley route established in 1895. The route covered a number of the major sites, identified on this view, in both Canada and the United States. The Belt Line closed in 1935, but its right of way serves today as the popular Niagara Gorge hiking trail.
Hiram Harold Green (1865-1930) was an artist active in Ontario and "especially noted for bird's-eye views of Niagara Falls." http://www.askart.com/artist/Hiram_Harold_Green/3490/Hiram_Harold_Green.aspx, accessed December 15, 2015.
Note:
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact
References:
For full details on references, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/references.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Rights:
For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.

About the collection

This is a collection of “persuasive” cartography: maps intended primarily to influence the opinion of the viewer -- to send a message -- rather than to communicate geographic information. The collection reflects a variety of persuasive tools: allegorical, satirical and pictorial mapping; selective inclusion or exclusion; unusual projections, graphics and text; and intentional deception. Maps in the collection address a wide range of messages: religious, political, military, commercial, moral and social.