Description
Glass lantern slide of a photograph of the Lower Steel Arch Bridge (now named Whirlpool Rapids Bridge) over the Niagara River connecting Ontario and New York. The image depicts a cargo train crossing the metal arch bridge with the river below. Next to the river, supporting the bridge, is a rock face with striations. In the background, a factory and other buildings and trees are visible. Reproduced from Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, December, 1898, vol. 40 (836): "The Niagara Railway Arch," by Richard Buck. Plate V. Used to illustrate the course "Civil Engineering Structures" which was taught between 1893-1950 at the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, Pa.
Sponsorship
This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.
