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Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, December 3, 2010.
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cartoon
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Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections
Original caption
Highly Unsuccessful Performance, by Dismal Jemmy
Source citation
James Buchanan Resource Center, Dickinson College Special Collections
Source note
Emile Blondin had become the first man to cross the Niagara Falls on a tightrope on June 30, 1860. This image, published in New York City by Currier and Ives, clearly parodies Blondin's fame. Original image in the James Buchanan Resource Center at Dickinson College.