North America | Album of mammoth photographs of the Niagara Falls and suspension bridge, circa. 1880s

North America

Album of mammoth photographs of the Niagara Falls, and Niagara Falls suspension bridge, circa. 1880s

Large folio (668 x 550mm.), 9 mammoth albumen prints (from 320 x 410mm. to 415 x 520mm.), individually mounted on card, recto only, early twentieth-century calf-backed purple papered boards, some fading and spotting, binding rubbed

RARE LARGE FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHS, showing 8 views of the Niagara Falls, including one showing the falls frozen in winter, and a view of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge which stood from 1855 to 1897 across the Niagara River and was the world's first working railway suspension bridge.