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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
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- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
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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
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Notes:
- From the early 19th century on many plans had been proposed for building a bridge at this site, but it was not until the early 20th century that plans for a bridge began to be carried out. Many commissions and committees in both Pensylvania and New Jersey were formed and in 1918 the consulting engineers Waddell and Son were hired to examine the possibility of a Delware River crossing. In 1919 the states of Philadelphia and New Jersey worked together to create the Delaware River Bridge Joint Commission and they were given permission to build. The chief engineer for the bridge was Ralph Modjeski with Clement E. Chase as assistant engineer, Leon S. Moisseiff as the engineer of design, and Paul P. Cret as the architect. By 1921 a site for the bridge was chosen and construction began in January of 1922. The bridge opened on July 1, 1926 and is today known as the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. For more information see: Delaware River Port Authority, The Delaware River Bridge Twenty-Fifth Anniversary (not published, 1951).
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
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- Bridge built from 1911-1913 for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad across the Delaware River from Yardley, Pennsylvania to Ewing Township, New Jersey.
- Date Issued:
- [1911 TO 1913]
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Notes:
- View from the west.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
