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Niagara Falls Railroad Suspension Bridge



#961 // August 2, 1948 // Niagara Falls, NY
(The stamp design is based on the lithograph shown below)


Hand-colored lithograph, published in 1857, by Charles Parsons (* 1821, † 1910)
"Rail Road Suspension Bridge Near Niagara Falls"
(1855 - 1896)

Sunday autumn scenery
Passenger steam train crossing the bridge on upper deck from Canada to USA,
pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages in both directions on lower deck.

Below the bridge the steam boat "Maid of the Mist" steaming upstream
on the Niagara River towards the Niagara Falls shown in the background.

Three people in contemporary clothing talking at the US riverside
are depicted in the foreground left, and at the right end of the bridge
two houses of the Canadian village Clifton are visible.
Source: Lithograph made public through the US Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b51175


Map of former suspension bridges which spanned the Niagara River gorge.

  

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