2-752-606 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Rainbow Falls', 1872. View of the Glen Creek falls which run through the gorge at Watkins Glen, New York State, USA. The Watkins Glen State Reservation was opened to the public in 1863 and was privately run as a tourist resort - visitors can be seen climbing steep steps in the gorge. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. I, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872]