Niagara Falls from Steel Arch Bridge – Historic Print
![Niagara Falls from Steel Arch Bridge, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b3/b395339a4d92-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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A window into the past: Niagara Falls from Steel Arch Bridge, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Niagara Falls from Steel Arch Bridge
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From the steel arch bridge spanning the gorge below the falls, this view looks back toward the cataract from a vantage few visitors of the period could reach on foot. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that sold views of American scenery, made the two large glass negatives sometime between 1890 and 1901, when the bridge was a fairly new link between the United States and Canada. The company's 1901 catalog suggests the image reflects Niagara as tourists saw it at the turn of the century, with the river, rock ledges, and spray recorded in the sharp detail that 8 by 10 inch plates allowed.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 010161. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Waterfalls.United States--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.Canada--Ontario--Niagara Falls. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,352 × 3,727 px · prints to 18 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif17825_NiagaraFallsfromSteelArchBridg |
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