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The Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, 1853

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Item

Date:

1853.

Reference:

Box number: A310-01

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2876662

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W.H. Coverdale collection of Canadiana

The Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, 1853
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1853.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Place of printing:

New York, New York

Extent:

1 print / estampe : lithotint in black, yellow-beige and blue-grey.
Image 35.200 x 37.500 cm

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Discoloured. Stained. Foxed. Margins cropped. Numerous vertical creases from rolling the print. Surface tears lower right. Canada Steamship Lines stamp embossed lower left.
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Artist: Holloway, Frederick H., fl. 1840-1853

Printer: Endicott & Co. (New York, N.Y.)
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General note:

Prints: One of a series of prints of Niagara Falls made at various dates.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed in the print, lower border, "Holloway Del. This sketch taken from the 'Maid of the Mist' Landing looking down the Rapids. Lith. of Endicott & Co. N.Y. The Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge 1853. Length ... [etc] Entered ...1853...New York."
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Niagara, Chutes du (N.Y. et Ont.)

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)

SUBJ. - Bridges, Suspension

Architecture
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1970-188 PIC
00679
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication

Box [1970-188]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A310-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 679

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1970-188]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-041581 Item no. assigned by LAC 679

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1970-188-679 W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: Expired

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