Antique Canada PC 1904 - Niagara Falls - Dixon Crossing Whirlpool Rapids

Antique Canada PC 1904 - Niagara Falls - Dixon Crossing Whirlpool Rapids

Cover Illustration: Photographer and tightrope walker Samuel J. Dixon, of Toronto, walked the high wire over Niagra on September 6th 1890. Wearing brown tights, black silk trunks, and his "lucky" Civil War cap, Dixon walked a seven-eigths inch wire over the Niagara River Gorge, above the most turbulent portion of the Whirlpool Rapids. His sixteen-foot-long balancing pole was made up of three pieces of gas pipe. After crossing from the Canadian side to the American side, on his return walk he further thrilled the crowd by standing on one foot, lying on the rope with the pole resting on his chest, and hanging from the wire by one hand.

Stamps: x 2 - Franklyn one cent

Card Issued: message on front dated 1904

Cancel: Norfolk Virginia USA

Condition: corner missing - but fairly clean - as in scan

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