Animated Stereoscopic Photo of Spectators Watching Blondin's Niagara River Tightrope Walk (1859)

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Published 2024-01-06
Animated stereoscopic photograph with close-ups of a crowd of spectators watching one of French acrobat Charles Blondin's tightrope walks across the Niagara River from the Ontario side to the New York side and back again taken by photographer William England in 1859.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

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