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Publisher
Currier & Ives
(American, 1857 - 1907)
Publisher
Nathanial Currier
(American, 1813 - 1888)
Publisher
James Merritt Ives
(American, 1824 - 1895)
DatePubl. 1856
MediumHand-colored lithograph on paper
DimensionsComposition: 10 1/4 × 15 1/2 in. (26 × 39.4 cm)
Sheet: 12 × 16 in. (30.5 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891
Object number1959.70
Not on view
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Additional Details
Signature
Signed in typeset at lower right: C. PASONS, DEL. [sic]; in typeset at lower center: PUBD. BY CURRIER & IVES
Inscribed
Entitled in typeset at lower center: THE RAIL ROAD SUSPENSION BRIDGE. / NEAR NIAGRA FALLS. / Length of Bridge 822 feet. Height above Water 240 feet.; inscribed in typeset at lower left: JOHN A. ROEBLING, ESQ. ENGINEER; in typeset at lower right: C. PASONS, DEL.; in typeset at lower center: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856, by N. Currier, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of NY.; in typset at lower center: NEW YORK, PUBD. BY CURRIER & IVES 152 NASSAU STREET.; in pencil at lower left: 59; in pencil on verso at upper left: Macy [illegible] Wolfer [?]; in pencil at lower left: HC 55 OPS-C
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Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
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Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
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Date: unknown
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.13
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Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.15
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Date: unknown
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.22
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Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
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Currier & Ives
Date: unknown
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.25