The Rail road suspension bridge: near 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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A window into the past: The Rail road suspension bridge: near Niagara Falls, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Rail road suspension bridge: near Niagara Falls
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Rather than the falls themselves, this print shows the railroad suspension bridge that spanned the gorge near Niagara Falls, seen from above so that the river, the rock walls and the length of the deck all fit in one view. The bridge opened in 1855 under the design of John A. Roebling, with a lower deck for trains and an upper one for carriages and pedestrians, linking railroads on the American and Canadian shores. Charles Parsons, whose name appears on the image, drew the scene for Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold affordable hand-colored lithographs to a broad public.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1856. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Artist: Charles Parsons (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5479 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,350 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176772 |
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