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Niagara builds its ice bridge, The ice bridge at the base of Niagara Falls, built up each year by ice flowing out of Lake Erie, averages five to ten f(...)
Niagara builds its ice bridge, The ice bridge at the base of Niagara Falls, built up each year by ice flowing out of Lake Erie, averages five to ten f(...)

Niagara builds its ice bridge, The ice bridge at the base of Niagara Falls, built up each year by ice flowing out of Lake Erie, averages five to ten f(...)

Date1/28/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Niagara builds its ice bridge; The ice bridge at the base of Niagara Falls; built up each year by ice flowing out of Lake Erie; averages five to ten feet thick this year but it's not safe in some places. earl Lafferty; a Niagara Parks Commission sign-writer; put up a warning yesterday. Colored lights play on the falls at night; drawing many spectators.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0106936F
To-day a 4,500 tons of scrap steel on the ice of Niagara Gorge, Niagara's ice jam pushed Falls View bridge from its foundations, then held firm while (...)
To-day a 4,500 tons of scrap steel on the ice of Niagara Gorge, Niagara's ice jam pushed Falls View bridge from its foundations, then held firm while (...)
1/27/1938
Winter's lovely, but has its drawbacks as revealed in this air view of Niagara Falls where the long ice bridge below the cataracts stretches from Hors(...)
Winter's lovely, but has its drawbacks as revealed in this air view of Niagara Falls where the long ice bridge below the cataracts stretches from Hors(...)
2/12/1947
New floes sweep over falls to add weight to jam squeezing 700-foot building, Ice blocks are pouring over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara again to-day as rising winds blow down Lake Erie
New floes sweep over falls to add weight to jam squeezing 700-foot building, Ice blocks are pouring over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara again to-day as rising winds blow down Lake Erie
1/29/1938
Swiftly taking shape is the new Rainbow bridge across the Niagara Falls gorge, replacing the Honeymoon bridge wrecked three years ago by an ice jam. T(...)
Swiftly taking shape is the new Rainbow bridge across the Niagara Falls gorge, replacing the Honeymoon bridge wrecked three years ago by an ice jam. T(...)
2/19/1941
Ice blockade at the head of the Niagara river at Fort Erie has reduced the level of water at Niagara Falls to an all-time low. Directly above the Hors(...)
Ice blockade at the head of the Niagara river at Fort Erie has reduced the level of water at Niagara Falls to an all-time low. Directly above the Hors(...)
4/23/1947
King winter transforms Niagara Falls into F, Mighty Niagara has become the abode of the ice king and the roaring waters are now gigantic, glastening formations of ice
King winter transforms Niagara Falls into F, Mighty Niagara has become the abode of the ice king and the roaring waters are now gigantic, glastening formations of ice
2/1/1938
Ice Bridge, Niagara Falls
Ice Bridge, Niagara Falls
1910
The Ice Bridge, Niagara Falls
The Ice Bridge, Niagara Falls
1910
Ice Has Choked off the major part of the flow of the main falls but a small part of the Bridal Veil falls, foreground, was still flowing. Ice directly(...)
Ice Has Choked off the major part of the flow of the main falls but a small part of the Bridal Veil falls, foreground, was still flowing. Ice directly(...)
2/6/1947
Standing on the brink of the Horseshoe Falls in Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls, this building was given an ice jacket during the recent cold snap
Standing on the brink of the Horseshoe Falls in Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls, this building was given an ice jacket during the recent cold snap
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Now forbidden territory for sightseers, this photograph of the ice mountains at Niagara Falls was taken about 1875 by George Barker, a well-known phot(...)
Now forbidden territory for sightseers, this photograph of the ice mountains at Niagara Falls was taken about 1875 by George Barker, a well-known phot(...)
2/8/1947
Black and white photograph of a bridge running through a wooded area.
"An Ice Bridge", Muskoka-Falls in Winter, Bracebridge, Ont. Canada
Approximately 1915