Image / The high bridge at Portage, B. & N.Y.C.R.R. : Wyoming County, N.Y

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Title: The high bridge at Portage, B. & N.Y.C.R.R. : Wyoming County, N.Y
Creator: Forbriger, Adolphus A., -1869, artist
Beyer, Edward, 1820-1865, artist
Onken's Lith., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1853
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an eye-level landscape view looking up from the Genesee River in Wyoming County and Livingston County, New York, towards a steam locomotive train crossing the wooden trestle Portage Bridge above, with forested and rocky hillsides, the waterfall below, and visitors standing on the rocks and bridge.
Single color print. "Taken from Nature by Ed. Beyer."--text, bottom left margin. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853 by Ed. Beyer in the Clerks Office of the District of Ohio."--text, bottom center margin. "Onken's Lith. Cin."--text, bottom right margin. "A. Forbriger, lith."--text, artist's signature in stone, bottom left of image. "R.H. Heywood, President. / A.D. Patchin, Treasurer. / S.M. Seymour, Superintending Engineer. / Messrs. Lauman, Rockafellow & Moore, Contract's."--text, bottom left margin. "Silas Seymour, Chief Engineer"--text, bottom center margin. "the Bridge is 800 feet long / 234 feet high / contains 1,602,000 feet Timber / 108,862 lbs. Iron in bolts &c."--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 35.24 x 47.63 cm (13 7/8 x 18 3/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_TRAN_001168
402540
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1503
Language: English
Subject: Livingston County (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Wyoming County (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Genesee River (Pa. and N.Y.)--Pictorial works
Advertising--Railroads
Architecture--Details--Pictorial works
Bridges--Pictorial works
Railroad bridges--Pictorial works
Railroads--Pictorial works
Waterfalls--Pictorial works
Boston and New York Central Railroad Company
Lithographs--1850-1875. (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
Relation: priJLC_VIEW_001022

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