Title

New Falls View Upper Suspension Bridge

Description

NSB-3

en-CA Original in the private collection of Thomas D Mahoney, Buffalo, New York ; ...the bridge was officially opened on January 2nd 1869. On October 21st 1868 the Niagara Falls Gazette reported "work on the New Suspension Bridge was so far advanced that people crossed on Thursday. On Friday, a party of several gentlemen passed over on a neighbourly call on Messrs Bromely and Shears (proprietors of the Clifton House). A few boards constitute the roadway at present. The engineer, Mr Keefer, says he will require about a month to place the bridge in passable condition for the public." A hack driver with his horse drawn sleigh wait at the bridge, perhaps the three people in the foreground have just alighted from his sleigh - George Seibel ;

en-CA Negative available

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=97557

Creator

Bierstadt, Charles

Medium

Photograph

Extent

5" x 5.5" black & white photograph from a sterographic image number 758

Provenance

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation

Date

1869

Is Part Of

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection

locator

421236f

Subject

Bridges - Suspension

number

D421236F

Format

Photograph

Date Created

2004-11-10

Date Modified

2005-01-20