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Upper Falls and Portage (Erie R.R.) Bridge, Letchworth State Park, N.Y.
Hand-colored postcard shows the iconic iron viaduct built in 1875 after a fire destroyed the original wooden bridge earlier that year.
Genesee Gorge Series: No. 23
Genesee Gorge Series: No. 23
Middle Falls, Letchworth State Park, N.Y.
Focal point of Glen Iris area features Erie Canal viaduct in background. Photograph is notable for the Middle Falls Overlook, visible at the right side of falls, indicating a date prior to 1915.
Genesee Gorge Series: No. 11
Genesee Gorge Series: No. 11
Portage Bridge from Inspiration Point, Letchworth State Park, N.Y.
Hand-colored postcard shows Genesee River Gorge from Inspiration Point, also featuring at left the Genesee Valley Canal and in the distance the Erie Railroad's Portage viaduct.
Genesee Gorge Series No. 19
Genesee Gorge Series No. 19
Stereopticon card: Middle Fall of Genesee, at Portage, NY
From a series titled "View on the Line of Erie Railway," this early photograph of Middle Falls shows the environmental effects of a sawmill located there. After purchasing this tract of land in 1859, William Pryor Letchworth began a long program of…
Glen Iris
Illustration from anthology of poems entitled "Voices of the Glen" shows William P. Letchworth's Glen Iris estate with Upper Falls and Erie railroad viaduct in background
Railroad Bridge, Portage
Famous Erie Railroad viaduct over Upper Falls at Portage, located in present-day Letchworth State Park, accompanied W. S. Ward's essay "The Valley of the Genesee."
New York and Erie Railroad organizational diagram
According to its caption, "Representing a plan of organization exhibiting the division of administrative duties, and showing the number and class of [employees], engaged in each department."