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Whirlpool Rapids and Great Gorge Route with railway cantilever bridge, Niagara Falls, circa 1910

Subjects
Bridges & DamsRivers & StreamsStreetcars & Trolleys
Card type
Lithograph
Date
Postmarked July 27, 1914 (Golden Age)
Front of Whirlpool Rapids and Great Gorge Route with railway cantilever bridge, Niagara Falls, circa 1910, 1914 lithograph postcard
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Back of Whirlpool Rapids and Great Gorge Route with railway cantilever bridge, Niagara Falls, circa 1910, 1914 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

The Whirlpool Rapids churn through the Niagara Gorge, with a steel cantilever railway bridge spanning the gorge in the distance and a trolley car of the Great Gorge Route running along the left bank on tracks beside the water. The Great Gorge Route was a scenic electric railway opened in the 1890s that carried tourists along the rim of the Niagara Gorge below the falls, and the cantilever bridge shown is the Michigan Central Railway crossing at Niagara Falls. The view captures the stretch of violent white water below the Whirlpool that gave the rapids their name.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

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Whirlpool Rapids & Great Gorge route, Niagara Falls 856 --- Post Card For correspondence For address only
PostmarkedNiagara Falls, NY, July 27, 1914, 19:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Harrison Evans

49 Nalis St. S.W., Washington, DC

Postcard record

Postmarked, Niagara Falls, NY
Series856
ConditionGood
Place addressedHarrison Evans, 49 Nalis St. S.W., Washington, DC
Place depictedWhirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls
Stamp1c George Washington, green, perforated on all sides
NotesThin white border; grainy chromolithograph screen texture; printed number 856 in lower left of image; worn corners and light edge wear. Postmark: NIAGARA FALLS N.Y. JUL 27 7-PM 1914. Divided-back card printed "Post Card" with "For correspondence / For address only"; 1¢ green Washington adhesive stamp; message written sideways along the left edge; heavy toning, soiled/torn stamp corner and worn edges.

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Whirlpool Rapids and Great Gorge Route with railway cantilever bridge, Niagara Falls, circa 1910, postcard, n.d.. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/whirlpool-rapids-and-great-gorge-route-with-railway-cantilev. Accessed October 25, 2026.