Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0300Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a large waterfall. Above the image "T487 (Star)" is printed, below the image "20742T Victoria Falls Making a 343-Foot Plunge, Rhodesia, South Africa." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
20742
VICTORIA FALLS, RHODESIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Whether the Victoria Falls or Niagara are the finest in the world is a matter of opinion. As far as size is concerned Victoria Falls rank first, for they are over a mile in width and 347 feet in height; twice as wide as Niagara and more than twice as high. The Falls were discovered by David Livingstone in 1855. On an island above the Falls is the site of Livingstone's camp, and his name may still be found carved there on the trunk of a tree, the only case, he claimed, in which he so indulged his vanity. The Zambesi River rises away up in Portuguese West Africa and enters the Indian ocean at a point aover 700 miles from where we stand.
Just above the Falls three islands divide the waters of the river into the Central Fall, the Rainbow Fall and the Devil's Cataract. The mist from the Falls can be seen fror miles and gives rise to the native name of "Roaring Smoke." A traveler in Africa writes of this view-point as follows: "A column of vapour rises to an immense height above the chasm, and the tumult of sound is grand beyond the power of words to express. There is one point of view form which the spectacle presented may well be the most terrific on earth. Here a vast volume of water, broken in its force to masses of spray, hurls itself over the towering precipice into a chasm where vapours and winds contend for the mastery. Anon the vapor lifts and discloses for a moment toppling pinnacles and ruined towers of rock that are once again involved in the gloom of spray and cloud. . . ."
Copyright by Keystone View CompanyCollection
Photograph Collection