Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls
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Two 8 by 10 inch glass negatives join to form this panorama of the Whirlpool Rapids on the Niagara River, where the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge crosses the gorge with the Michigan Central Cantilever Bridge rising behind it. Railroad spans like these linked the United States and Canada over water that runs fast and rough below, and seeing them together in one frame shows how heavily the gorge was built up by the late 1800s. Detroit Publishing Co. issued the views around 1905, and the cracked left negative, taped to its backing glass, is a reminder of how fragile these plates are.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs. |
| Notes | Videodisc images out of sequence; actual left to right order is 06857, 06856. Includes Whirlpool Rapids Bridge with Michigan Central Cantilever Bridge behind it. Left negative cracked across bottom and taped to second sheet of glass. G 12398" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 010887. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Railroad bridges. Rapids.United States--New York (State)--Niagara River.Canada--Ontario--Niagara River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,764 × 3,767 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220392 |
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