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Bridges-- Suspension

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

#4

 Box — Box FC-5: Series 2 [Barcode: SC2071]
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents

Glass plate negatives of Niagara Falls, including the Suspension Bridge, Hotels, the falls, and the original Maid of the Mists

Dates: 1800-90s

#5

 Box — Box FC-6: Series 2 [Barcode: SC2072]
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents

Glass plate negatives of undetermined people (groups and individuals), the Suspension Bridge, buildings, nature scenes, and bears

Dates: 1800-90s

B - Ellet, Charles 1810-1862, 1839 - 2000

 File — Drawer C-5-1: [Barcode: SC0993]
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of newspaper clippings documenting Charles Ellet's engineering design of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge and the 150th anniversary of the bridge, and genealogy research correspondence

Dates: 1839 - 2000

Ballou's - in order by date, 1855 - 1856

 File — Drawer Drawer 14: Series Series 6 [Barcode: SC0896]
Identifier: Series 6
Scope and Contents

Pages and issues from Ballou's Pictorial featuring prints of Niagara Falls buildings, bridges, and the Falls. Includes oversized materials.

Dates: 1855 - 1856

Basket (Traveling Car), 1848

 File
Scope and Contents

20th century photographs of an iron basket designed by Judge T. G. Hulett to transport men and materials across the gorge in building the first Suspension Bridge that later took passengers across. Includes typewritten report about the history of the basket as well.

Dates: 1848

Bridges, 1899 - 1991

 File — Drawer SC0899: [Barcode: SC0899]
Scope and Contents

Booklet on the history and collapse of the Falls View Bridges and Niagara Ice Bridges, flyer for the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, tourism pamphlets for the United States, and a photocopy of a 1899 report on the construction of the Steel Arch Bridge [originals and photocopies]

Dates: 1899 - 1991

Bridges, 1860-1930

 File
Scope and Contents

Sleeved negatives of local bridges, including Suspension Bridge, the old bridge to Sister Island, Roebling Bridge, Goat Island bridge, a bridge with the Maid of the Mist passing beneath, and more. One negative unsleeved.

Dates: 1860-1930

Bridges - 100th Anniversary of 1st Bridge (at Whirlpool), 1948

 File
Scope and Contents

Programs, scripts, brochures, postcards related to the 100th anniversary of the first international suspension bridge, the Roebling's Suspension bridge

Dates: 1948

Bridges - First Suspension Bridge

 File
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the original Suspension Bridge

Dates: undated

Bridges - Railway Suspension Bridge

 File
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the Suspension Bridge

Dates: undated