Annie Edson Taylor, first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive (cat in photo is likely the same cat that went over the falls in a test run). TITLE: Mrs. Anna Edson standing next to huge barrel upon which is written "Queen of the Mist" and upon which is sitting a cat CALL NUMBER: LC-B2- 1119-13[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-05575 (digital file from original neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [no date recorded on caption card] CREATOR: Bain News Service, publisher. NOTES: Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

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• Artist: GG Bain News Service
• License: Public Domain

Media information:

• Original datetime: Unknown date, likely 1901 (date of her historic feat) or shortly thereafter, but definitely earlier than 1922 (Anna Edson Taylor died in 1921)
• Upload datetime: 2009-05-17T23:17:40Z
• Uploader: User:DreamGuy
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