American Falls and Steel Arch Bridge from Luna Island, Niagara Falls, New York, circa 1910

Subjects: Bridges & Dams Rivers & Streams
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1915 (White Border)

Back of American Falls and Steel Arch Bridge from Luna Island, Niagara Falls, New York, circa 1910, Miss M. Hunter, IA, USA, c. 1915 lithograph postcard — Back

About this postcard

A color-tinted view looks across the Niagara River toward the American Falls, with the great steel arch bridge (the Falls View or Honeymoon Bridge) spanning the gorge above the brink; small figures stand on the rocky shore at lower right. The bridge, a hinged steel arch completed in 1898, carried road and trolley traffic between Niagara Falls, New York, and Ontario until it collapsed in an ice jam in January 1938. Luna Island, the small island between the American and Bridal Veil falls, was a popular vantage point for early tourists and photographers.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pencil

Best wishes from this is a [illegible] place having a [illegible] time will [illegible] M. [illegible]

American Falls and Steel Arch Bridge from Luna Island, Niagara Falls. --- AMERICAN FALLS FROM LUNA ISL AND STEEL ARCH BRIDGE, NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. American Falls properly consists of two precipitating floods, for the stream as it approaches the fearful brink is divided by Luna Island and goes tumbling with increased velocity over the ledge at Centre Fall, on one side, and the American Fall on the other. At the point shown, the sheer descent is one hundred and fifty-nine feet and the width is eleven hundred feet. The amount of water thus precipitated is computed to be two million five hundred thousand gallons per second. Post Card For Address only

PostmarkedNiagara Falls, NY, July 26, 1917

Addressed to

Miss M. Hunter

Independence, IA

Postcard record

Postmarked	July 26, 1917, Niagara Falls, NY
Condition	Good
Place addressed	Miss M. Hunter, Independence, IA
Place mentioned	Luna Island, Niagara Falls, NY
Stamp	1c George Washington, green, perforated on all sides
Notes	White border; heavy soiling and staining along the margins and some surface wear; divided-back era color lithograph. Postmark: NIAGARA FALLS N.Y. JUL 26 -17 FALLS STATION (machine cancel, 1¢ green Washington stamp). Divided-back era card with printed descriptive text; heavy toning/soiling, worn corners, torn stamp corner, faint pencil message written sideways along the left edge.

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American Falls and Steel Arch Bridge from Luna Island, Niagara Falls, New York, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1915. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/american-falls-and-steel-arch-bridge-from-luna-island-niagar. Accessed October 25, 2026.