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[Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls, N.Y.] – Historic Print

[Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Niagara Falls collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls, N.Y.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Few stretches of the Niagara River look as turbulent as the Whirlpool Rapids, where the water, having tumbled over the falls and through the gorge, is forced into a sharp bend. Two glass negatives, joined side by side, capture the full width of the scene, with the Michigan Central Cantilever Bridge and the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge spanning the gorge in the background. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sold scenic views to tourists and publishers in the early twentieth century, made the pair. Together the bridges show how rail and road crossings were built directly over the gorge, so the view records engineering as much as scenery.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePanoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19272, 19271. Michigan Central Cantilever Bridge and Whirlpool Rapids Bridge in background. G 7213" on left negative; "G 7216" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037204. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRapids. Railroad bridges.United States--New York (State)--Niagara River.Canada--Ontario--Niagara River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68650

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