The new suspension bridge--Niagara Falls – Historic Reproduction
![The new suspension bridge--Niagara Falls, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5c/5c69129b21d3-L.webp)
(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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The new suspension bridge--Niagara Falls comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The new suspension bridge--Niagara Falls
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Here the subject is a bridge rather than the falls themselves: a span built across the Niagara gorge a short distance below the cataract, linking New York and Ontario. The bridge that replaced an earlier suspension crossing in the 1850s was a major engineering project of its day, and it carried both carriages and trains over the chasm. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued many hand-colored views of American scenery and progress, turned such feats into popular images that let buyers admire the structure and the dramatic gorge beneath it from home.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4816 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,287 × 3,857 px · prints to 18 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174981 |
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