Niagara - Great Canti-lever Bridge. Over whirlpool rapids – Vintage Print
(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 Niagara - Great Canti-lever Bridge. Over whirlpool rapids, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Niagara - Great Canti-lever Bridge. Over whirlpool rapids
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Few views on this board show the river as a working crossing, but this stereograph does. It shows the Great Cantilever Bridge spanning the Niagara gorge above the Whirlpool Rapids, linking New York State with Ontario. Built in the early 1880s, the steel cantilever span was a railroad crossing that drew engineers and sightseers to the gorge. George Barker, a Niagara Falls photographer, issued this view on a stereo card around 1890, when the bridge was a popular subject. Its paired images give the steel framework real depth against the dark water below.
| Created / published | Niagara Falls, New York : Geo. Barker, photographer, c1890. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890.Stereographs 1890. |
| Notes | No. 719. |
| Subjects | Bridges--New York (State)--1890. Bridges--Ontario--1890. Niagara River (N.Y. and Ont.)--1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,232 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-184862 |
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