{"id":32123,"date":"2025-08-15T01:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32123"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:58:46","slug":"cover-shot-niagara-falls-c1891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/cover-shot-niagara-falls-c1891\/","title":{"rendered":"cover shot &#8211; Niagara Falls c1891"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32124\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Niagara1891.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32124\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32124\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Niagara1891-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Niagara c1891 (American Falls and Goat Island) by John Zyback &#8211; half a stereo pair<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Editor Bob Lansdale went to great lengths to source the cover shot for each journal issue &#8211; giving precedent to Canadian content.<\/p>\n<p>For issue 25-2, Bob returned to Niagara Falls using one of a stereo card pair taken by John Zyback of Niagara. Bob describes the shot as follows, &#8220;As with covers on the first issue of our journal in March 1975 and Souvenir Issue of May-June 1984, marking the society\u2019s tenth Anniversary, we have chosen to return to Niagara Falls for the illustration on our Special 25th Anniversary issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;John Zyback of Niagara Falls, Ontario was much praised for his\u00a0dynamic views of the Falls winning a\u00a0Silver medal at the 1891 convention of\u00a0the Photographic Association of\u00a0Canada. <i>The St. Louis and Canadian\u00a0<\/i><i>Photographer <\/i>singled him out for\u00a0special mention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Collectors of photographica, you may discover a Zyback photograph at a PHSC event, or other interesting items for your collection. Our next event, described in<a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PHSC_News_25_7.pdf\"> issue 25-7 of PHSC News<\/a> (our newsletter), is the Fall Fair on October 19th this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Editor Bob Lansdale went to great lengths to source the cover shot for each journal issue &#8211; giving precedent to Canadian content. For issue 25-2, Bob returned to Niagara Falls using one of a stereo card pair taken by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/cover-shot-niagara-falls-c1891\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2515,495,258,4737],"class_list":["post-32123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-niagara","tag-photograph","tag-stereo","tag-stereo-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32128,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32123\/revisions\/32128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}