Niagara Bridges; View of Lewiston Suspension Bridge

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Index card originally labels this bridge the Niagara-Clifton Suspension Bridge, but then it was re-labeled as the Lewiston Suspension Bridge. This could be due to the fact that the second Niagara-Clifton Suspension Bridge also known as the Falls View Suspension Bridge was dismantled and used to replace the lost bridge at Queenston-Lewiston (this was a suspension bridge built in 1851 by Edward W. Serrall, but it was destroyed in a storm in 1864). However, this image is possibly the original Niagara-Clifton Suspension Bridge built in 1869 by the engineer Samuel Keefer, and the bridge at 1268 ft. was the longest single span in the world until the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. The original wooden towers of this bridge were enclosed (which is possibly represented in the tower shown in this image) and an observation deck was created on the Canadian side. The bridge was later given iron towers and re-built wider by Leffert L. Buck in 1887-88. Buck's re-modeled bridge was destroyed in a storm in 1889 and the 2nd Niagara-Clifton Suspension Bridge was built (the image could also be of this bridge, it is uncertain). This 2nd bridge was replaced by the Falls View or Upper Steel Arch Bridge (or Niagara-Clifton Arch Bridge) in 1898 again designed by Leffert L. Buck. Yet the 2nd Suspension bridge was not destroyed but moved as stated above to the Queenston-Lewiston site. For more information see: Spanning Niagara: The International Bridges 1848-1962 (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1984).

Date Issued:

1869-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

University of Michigan. Libraries

Collection:

Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection

Place:

Canada/United States

Subject Topic:

Transportation Facilities; Bridges; Aqueducts

Language:

UND

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http://name.umdl.umich.edu/IC-UMMU2IC-X-LS018028%5DLS018028