Title

New Falls View Upper Suspension Bridge - Entrance - Canadian side

Description

NSB - 20

en-CA Original held in the collection of Earl W Brydges Public Library, Niagara Falls, New York ; The Canadian entrance with two tourist couples posing with the gatekeeper. The impressive entrance would not have been out of place on a bank or government building. The entrance was designed to be "highly ornate" to impart an air of "elegance and substaniality". The ribbed surface in the background is the corrugated iron sheets which were used to cover the wooden tower supports. This work was begun on the Canadian side in November of 1871, and on the US side in March of 1872. On July 10 1872, the Niagara Falls Gazette reported "from a huge unsightly and yet picturesque structure - a sort of architectural puzzle - the twin towers have been slowly merging their duality of ugliness into a sightly model of civil architecture" - George Seibel ;

en-CA Negative available

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=97553

Creator

Barker, George

Medium

Photograph

Extent

10" x 7.75" black & white photograph from sterographic image number 848

Provenance

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation

Date

1872

Is Part Of

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection

locator

421236j

Rights Holder

Expired

Rights

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation

Subject

Bridges - Suspension

number

D421236J

Format

Photograph

Date Created

2004-11-11

Date Modified

2005-01-20