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Niagara Gorge

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 77 Collections and/or Records:

16mm DVDs, 1920-2007

 Box — Box Q-36: [Barcode: SC2024]
Scope and Contents

Box contains digitized 16mm films transferred to DVDs related to local attractions, local history, and local events. Includes the 2004 Erie Canal Harbor project's Environmental Impact Statement and associated reports.

Dates: 1920-2007

Accidents - Misc, 1905 - 1985

 File — Drawer SC0927: [Barcode: SC0927]
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings concerning various accidents around Niagara Falls [originals and photocopies]

Dates: 1905 - 1985

Autographs of Robin Victor Sims, 1986

 File
Scope and Contents

1986-11-21. Autographs from Robin Victor Sims who piloted the Lelawala on October 22, 1986 through the Niagara Gorge for the IMAX motion picture.

Dates: 1986

B - Judah, Theodore (Judah, Theodore Dehone), 1860 - 1996

 File — Drawer C-5-2: [Barcode: SC0997]
Scope and Contents

Itemized inventory of Theodore Dehone Judah family collection at California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives; photocopies of newspaper clippings documenting the biography of railroad construction engineer Theodore Dehone Judah, the history and use of the Niagara Gorge Railway, and researcher correspondence regarding Judah's work in Niagara Falls

Dates: 1860 - 1996

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

Bridge - Collapse of Honeymoon, 1938-1979

 File
Scope and Contents

Materials related to the collapse of the Falls View Bridge, also known as the Honeymoon Bridge, in 1938.

Dates: 1938-1979

Bridges - Falls View - "Honeymoon"

 File
Scope and Contents

Copies of an undated report by the Power City Yorkers, a club at Niagara Falls High School, titled "The Falls View Bridge. The report tells the history of the Falls View Bridge, also known as the Honeymoon Bridge.

Dates: 1881-2003

Bridges, Upper Suspension NG, circa 1880

 File — Drawer SC1038: [Barcode: SC1038]
Scope and Contents

Reprinted photographs of the upper suspension bridge before its collapse in 1889

Dates: circa 1880

Buildings - Langs House on Whirlpool

 File — Drawer SC0999: [Barcode: SC0999]
Scope and Contents

Photograph of John Pierce Lang house on foot of Niagara Gorge

Dates: 1700 - 2011

Buttery Elevator, circa 1880

 File — Drawer SC0999: [Barcode: SC0999]
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the buttery elevator includes photographs of prints of the elevator as well

Dates: circa 1880