 Following Catlin 's visit , each ensuing year saw an increasing number of <unk> , artists , and photographers . Hundreds of Stereoscopic View cards of the falls exist . The visitors were mainly men but a few women took the journey , most notably 80 @-@ year @-@ old Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton , the widow of Alexander Hamilton . The beauty of the area was also spread through moving panoramas , artistic panoramic creations that were shown much like today 's travel documentaries . Quoting from a 1939 paper written by the Minnesota Historical Society : 
