The only route via Niagara Falls & suspension bridge: for Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and all points west take the Great Western & Michigan Central R'y Line
Image of an elevated landscape view of a steam locomotive and passenger train with baggage and sleeping cars crossing the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge between the bridge towers on the New York side of the gorge; with pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage below the bridge and Witmer's Mill behind it, and Niagara Falls, the banks, and the covered enclosure of an incline railway in the distance; the locomotive has a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement and the cab and tender are labeled "207." "Clay, Cosack & Co. Buffalo N"--text, bottom left margin. "Entered according to the act of Congress, in the Year 1876, by William Edgar in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."--text, bottom center margin. "Palace, Sleeping & Drawing-Room Cars between New York, Boston & Chicago without change." "A.J. Harlow, Eastern Passenger Agent, 201 Washington St. Boston."--text, bottom left margin. "J.Q.A. Bean, General Eastern Agent. 347 Broadway. New York."--text, bottom left margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 59.21 x 59.21 cm (23 5/16 x 23 5/16 in.)
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Pictorial works Landscapes--Pictorial works Advertising--Railroads Bridges--Pictorial works Railroads--Pictorial works Railroad travel--Pictorial works Suspension bridges--Pictorial works Tourism--Pictorial works Waterfalls--Pictorial works Michigan Central Railroad Company Great Western Railway Company (Canada) Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Transportation Large Size Railroad The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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