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Images database - Browsing Subjects - 'Elevators' (22 found) Mark  1. Title  Artist's sketch of Butterick Elevator Whirlpool Rd, Railway Suspension Bridge (background) Description  date unknown Collection  Kiwanis Collection Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D420250  Photograph      2. Title  Colt's Elevator at the Whirlpool Rapids Notes  Photographer of Stereographic Image: unknown; Research & Photography used in this scan: George A. Seibe ; located in the Earl W. Brydges Public Library, Niagara Falls, NY ;   Photograph from a stereograph ; Collection  Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D416085  Stereographic image      3. Title  Colt's Elevator at the Whirlpool Creator  Unknown Type  Still Image Collection  Niagara Falls Public Library Digital Collections Notes  A stereograph by an unknown photographer. In the Earl W. Bridges Public Library, Niagara Falls, NewYork. Research and photography by George Seibel Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D504904  Black and white photograph      4. Title  Construction of the Elevator to the Great Gorge / Whirlpool Rapids - 1936 Collection  Francis J. Petrie Collection   Niagara Falls Public Library Digital Collections Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D414865  Photograph      5. Title  Elevator to the Great Gorge - Whirlpool Rapids Collection  Francis J. Petrie Collection   Niagara Falls Public Library Digital Collections Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D414863  Photograph      6. Title  The Elevator Tower Building for The Whirlpool Rapids & the Great Gorge Trip Collection  Francis J. Petrie Collection Date  May, 1945. Collection  General Photograph Collection Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D417235  Photograph      7. Title  Gorge elevator used by tourists to descend to the Whirlpool Rapids on the US side Type  Still Image Date  ca 1881 Collection  Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection Notes  This elevator was later destroyed by a rockfall ; Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D421800  Black and white photograph      8. Title  Grain Elevator at far left and the Empress of India docked in Port Dalhousie harbour Notes  Grain Elevator built 1853 and destroyed by fire in December of 1910 ; Collection  Francis J. Petrie Collection   General Photograph Collection Date  ca 1880 Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D417313  Photograph      9. Title  Great Gorge route and elevators at Whirlpool Rapids - Rock fall in foreground blocking track Type  Still Image Collection  Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection Notes  negative GR-32 Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D421777  Black and white photograph      10. Title  Great Gorge Route Railway - Construction Type  Still Image Collection  Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection Notes  negative GR-1 Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D421872  Black and white photograph      11. Title  Great Gorge Trip, Niagara Falls, Ontario Creator  Unknown Type  Still Image Collection  General Photograph Collection Notes  Whirlpool rapids elevator that takes tourists to the Great Gorge Trip. Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D525944  Black and white photograph      D525944A  Black and white photograph      12. Title  Great Gorge Trip / Whirlpool Rapids Elevator Creator  Harbottle, Russell Description  neg 1-26 Date  May, 1985. Collection  Harbottle Collection Notes  Negative available Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D421142  Photograph      13. Title  Great Gorge Trip / Whirlpool Rapids Elevator Creator  James Collection  Francis J. Petrie Collection   Niagara Falls Public Library Digital Collections Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D414872  Photograph      14. Title  New Falls View Upper Suspension Bridge - Elevator Tower Creator  Monroe, George H. Description  NSB - 22 Notes  Original held in the collection of Earl W Brydges Public Library, Niagara Falls, New York ; This view of the US terminus of the bridge shows two carriages waiting to go through the portal onto the bridge deck. The masonry structure at the left houses the cable anchor. The depth of the anchor pits below the surface of the ground was 18 feet and the length of the anchor chains was 30 feet, The anchors were set in solid rock on the Canadian side, and in masonry on the US side. The anchors had to hold the main cables each of which weighed 82 tons - George Seibel ; Date  1873. Collection  Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection Notes  Negative available Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D421236P  Photograph      15. Title  New Falls View Upper Suspension Bridge - Elevator Tower Creator  E & H T Anthony and Co. Description  American Indian Bazaar (left) Notes  Original held in the collection of Earl W Brydges Public Library, Niagara Falls, New York ; Between November 1871 and March 1872, the Canadian Tower was enclosed "The northern, southern and western sides of the edifice are covered with corrugated iron as a protection against the possible attack of the fiery fiend from the land. The eastern side - that looking toward the bridge is covered in wood, in perfect imitation of the other surfaces. The whole is painted in a light drab colour" Niagara Falls Gazette July 10 1872. Inside stairways and an Otis elevator were installed, powered by steam. The engine which controlled the car was situated under the Lower landing of the elevator. The steam boiler was in a very neat brick building (seen to the right of the tower) and steam was communicated to the engine by means of a long pipe connected with the boiler passing through the masonry at the base of the tower... - George Seibel ; Date  1873. Collection  Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection Notes  Negative available Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D421236N  Photograph      16. Title  New Falls View Upper Suspension Bridge - Elevator Tower Creator  Bierstadt, Charles Description  NSB - 16 Notes  Original held in the collection of Earl W Brydges Public Library, Niagara Falls, New York ; Between November 1871 and March 1872, the Canadian Tower was enclosed "The northern, southern and western sides of the edifice are covered with corrugated iron as a protection against the possible attack of the fiery fiend from the land. The eastern side - that looking toward the bridge is covered in wood, in perfect imitation of the other surfaces. The whole is painted in a light drab colour" Niagara Falls Gazette July 10 1872. Inside stairways and an Otis elevator were installed, powered by steam. The engine which controlled the car was situated under the Lower landing of the elevator. The steam boiler was in a very neat brick building (seen to the right of the tower) and steam was communicated to the engine by means of a long pipe connected with the boiler passing through the masonry at the base of the tower... - George Seibel ; Date  1872. Collection  Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection Notes  Negative available Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D421236M  Photograph      17. Title  New Falls View Upper Suspension Bridge - Elevator Tower view from American side Creator  Curtis, George E. Description  NSB-31 Notes  Original held in the collection of Earl W Brydges Public Library, Niagara Falls, New York ; A view taken from the tower on the US side. Ferry Road now Clifton Hill curves up the hill behind the Clifton House (left), bordered by a split rail fence. The buildings at either side of the Canada end of the bridge, the on the left built by George bender Biggar and the one on the right by Philip Bender were built in 1872 ; The library has four other images very similar to this but with different provenances. For ease of use they are all filed under Accession number 421236p ; Date  1873. Collection  Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection Notes  Negative available Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D421236R  Photograph      18. Title  Tourist elevators of the 1880s, US side of the Niagara Gorge Date  1880. Collection  Kiwanis Collection Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D420252  Photograph      19. Title  Water Wheel at Colt's Elevator at the Whirlpool Rapids Collection  Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection Notes  Photograph of a Stereographic Image Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D416083  Stereographic image      D416083A  Black and white photograph      20. Title  Water Wheel at Colt's Elevator at the Whirlpool Rapids Collection  Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection Notes  Photograph of a Stereographic Image Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D416098  Photograph      D416098A  Black and white photograph      21. Title  Whirlpool Rapids Elevator - Parking Shed & Souvenir Store Date  September 10, 1932. Collection  Niagara Falls Public Library Digital Collections Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D414877  Photograph      22. Title  Whirlpool - Rapids / Great Gorge Trip Elevator on River Rd. ( 1937 ) Notes  - as it appeared just after its opening in June, 1937; - built ( 1936 - 37 ) by Robertson Construction Co. Collection  Francis J. Petrie Collection Date  June, 1937. Collection  Niagara Falls Public Library Digital Collections Physical items  Filing No.   Format        D414873  Photograph

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