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Horseshoe Falls - Glass Slide


© Gatineau Valley Historical Society

Image: CD-041/02518-006
Location: Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

Image Date: c 1920
Photographer: Unknown

Description
A hand-painted glass slide of the Horseshoe Falls in the Gatineau River. Slide has crack in it. This photo is one in a collection of glass plate positives stored in a wooden box acquired from Victor Castonguay, son of well-known photographer Joseph Alexandre Castonguay. Victor Castonguay remembered his father acquiring these plates from a photographer who was going out of business, but does not remember the name of the photographer.