Title

Chinese ambassador crossing the cable accompanied by Samuel Keefer

Description

Clifton Hotel in background ; "At the request of Delos deWolf, vice president of the Suspension Bridge Company, Samuel Keefer carried the Chinese Ambassador who was visiting Niagara Falls, over and back along the carrier rope. Samuel Keefer reported "His celestial highness was delighted with sublimity of the view and the novelty of the adventure. This working platform was one of teh buggies used to carry workmen as they gave the cable wires a second coat of paint before they were clamped in cable form" ; excerpted from Bridges over the Niagara Gorge by George Seibel ;

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=97532

Creator

Bierstadt, Charles

Medium

Photograph

Extent

3" x 3.25" black and white photograph from a sterographic view No 820 by the Whiting View Company from the Twentieth Century Series

Provenance

Library of Congress Washington D.C.

Date

1868

Is Part Of

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection

locator

421236an

Rights

Library of Congress

Subject

Construction

Niagara River - Lower

Bridges - Fallsview/Honeymoon/Upper Steel Arch

Niagara Falls (Ont.) - City

Spatial Coverage

Canada - Ontario

Canada - Ontario - Niagara Falls

number

D421236AN

Format

Photograph

Date Created

2004-11-16

Date Modified

2005-11-25