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Whirlpool Rapids (N.Y. and Ont.)

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Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:

1848 Bridge and Whirpool, 1848-1942

 File — Drawer SC0684: [Barcode: SC0684]
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Photos of the rapids at the bottom of the falls and prints of bridges

Dates: 1848-1942

Bartlett's, 1837 - 1839

 File — Drawer 12: [Barcode: SC0894]
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Prints by W.H. Bartlett illustrating Niagara Falls and its vicinity, #131 - #135 (reprints). Includes oversized materials.

Dates: 1837 - 1839

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

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

Dates: 1948

Bridges - Michigan Central, 1925 - 2002

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Photographs of the Michigan Central Railroad Bridge (also known as the Canada Southern Railroad Bridge) over the Whirlpool Rapids includes construction shots and index of new donation of photographs from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

Dates: 1925 - 2002

Bridges - Railway Suspension, 1848

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Photographs of the early engraving of the first whirlpool rapids bridge at Niagara Falls in 1848 shows the Niagara Frontier as a wilderness.

Dates: 1848

Bridges - Whirlpool - 100th Anniv., 1997

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Program for the 100th Anniversary of the Niagara Rail Arch bridge, renamed the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, which replaced the original Roebling's Suspension Bridge (1848-1897)

Dates: 1997

Bridges - Whirlpool- 1897-, 1981-2003

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Information about the Whirlpool Bridge, Suspension Bridge, and the "harmonic vibration phenomena"

Dates: 1981-2003

Bridges: Whirlpool, Cantilever, Lower Arch, Michigan Central NG, 1967 - 1990

 File — Drawer SC1038: [Barcode: SC1038]
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Photographs of the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, a drawing of the Cantilever Bridge, construction on the Lower Arch Bridge, and the Michigan Central Railway Bridge

Dates: 1967 - 1990

Buttery Elevator, 1975-1904, undated

 File — Drawer SC0899: [Barcode: SC0899]
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Book on the history of John Milton Buttery and the Buttery Elevator at the Whirlpool Rapids and original documents related to the elevator [originals and photocopies]

Dates: 1975-1904, undated

Buttery Elevator

 File — Drawer SC0899: [Barcode: SC0899]
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Handwritten timeline on the Buttery Elevator's history [originals]

Dates: 1750-2011