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This original item is being sacrificed from my personal collection will fund maintenance. #46 Portageville, NY On the Line of the Erie Railway ••••••••••••• Stereoscopic Department of A.J. Fisher, 98 Nassau Street, New York Full Lines of Imported and Domestic Stereoscopic Views, Stereoscopes, Graphoscopes of Every Description Vintage 3D Stereoview This historic, antique stereoview card is a great landscape view! This is a very RARE view of this town. Very few were ever made of Portageville period! Obviously a windy day as you can tell in stunning 3D by the surreal movement of the trees.    This genuine stereopticon has a great 3D effect when viewed through your stereoviewer. Same effect as a Viewmaster. Like the effect of a three dimensional hologram. A gem of the forgotten art of stereo photography. This is a rare photographic SV and is presented on an early orange mount. This scarce piece of 3 dimensional memorabilia would make an excellent addition to your historical vintage photograph collection. Portageville is a hamlet located in the town of Genesee Falls in Wyoming County, New York. Its name derives from the Native American Indian canoists who would withdraw their craft from the river to avoid going over three waterfalls in the Genesee River gorge. They had to portage several miles to the site of present day Mount Morris where they could embark for the rest of the journey downriver. Portageville is the only named community in the town of Genesee Falls. The Genesee River Gorge with its scenic waterfalls was formed after the original valley was buried in glacial debris from the last ice age and the river had to cut a new valley though the Devonian sedimentary rock of the area. It has also been called The Grand Canyon of the East. The site has now been designated Letchworth State Park and is a major tourist attraction, with the upper entrance at Portage. The Genesee River's name is derived from the Seneca tribe word (Chin-u-shio) meaning a beautiful open valley, good valley or pleasant valley. It flows northward through western New York from its sources in the township of Ulysses in Pennsylvania, south of Wellsville, New York, and empties into Lake Ontario in the City of Rochester, New York. Falls along the river are within the gorge of Letchworth State Park (the Grand Canyon of the East) near Portageville, New York and within Rochester, where they provided power to 19th century industry. A dam at Mount Morris is the largest flood control dam east of the Mississippi. It has greatly reduced flood damage in the lower Genesee Valley; its capacity was only exceeded once as a result of Hurricane Agnes in 1972. The dam was completed in 1952. The river was the original source of power and commerce in the Rochester area. During the early 19th century mills along the river ground more flour than anywhere else in North America, earning Rochester one of its nicknames "Flour City". Other communities in Wyoming County include: Arcade, Arcade, Attica, Bennington, Castile, Covington, Eagle, Gainesville, Genesee Falls, Java, Middlebury, Orangeville, Perry, Pike, Sheldon, Silver Springs, Strykersville, Warsaw, Wethersfield, Wyoming. The Erie Railroad. In the Erie War of the 1860s, four well-known financiers struggled for control of the company; Cornelius Vanderbilt versus Daniel Drew, James Fisk and Jay Gould. Gould ultimately triumphed in this struggle, but was forced to relinquish control in 1872-73, due to unfavourable public opinion following his involvement in the 1869 gold-rigging scandal and to his loss of $1 million of Erie Railroad stock to the British con-man Lord Gordon-Gordon. In 1893 that railroad also went into bankruptcy reorganization, to emerge in 1895 as the Erie Railroad. In 1897 trackage rights were obtained by the Erie over the Pennsylvania Railroad, from Johnsonburg to Brockway, Pennsylvania, then known as Brockwayville. The distance was 27.76 miles. On May 1, 1907 the Erie obtained new trackage rights over the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh from Clarion, Pennsylvania, north of Johnsonburg, to Eleanora Junction, later called Cramer, in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. This covered a distance of 50.67 miles. George W. Perkins brought Frederick D. Underwood into the Erie Railroad in 1910. During the eastern railroad strike of 1913 Underwood agreed to accept any ruling made by mediators under the Newlands Reclamation Act. One of the demands made by Erie employees was a 20% increase in wages. Erie management had refused a wage increase but compromised by asking employees to wait until January 1915 for any advance. Union leaders agreed to make this an issue which Erie management would settle with its own men. However, W.G. Lee, president of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen, asserted that the only way to deal with the Erie is through J.P. Morgan & Company, or the banks. Underwood responded from his home in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, I am running the Erie Railroad: not George W. Perkins, nor J.P. Morgan & Co., nor anybody else. In mid-1920s the successful Van Sweringen brothers gained control of the Erie, improving operations (such as standardizing the railroad's locomotives and rolling stock) and bottom-line earnings. Unfortunately, both brothers, who at the time owned several other railroads, died at an early age but had they lived the shape of railroads in the east would likely look very different today. In 1938, the Erie Railroad was involved in the famous U.S. Supreme Court case of Erie R.R. v. Tompkins. The Erie doctrine, which governs the application of state law in federal diversity cases, is still taught in American law schools today. On September 15, 1948, the Cleveland Union Terminals Company allowed the Erie to use the Union Terminal adjacent to Terminal Tower in lieu of its old station. The Erie Railroad merged with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1960. The new company became known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR SIMILAR! Low starting bid with NO RESERVE! COMBINED SHIPPING!!! Keep an eye on my current and upcoming auctions that will feature additional vintage museum quality items. 30's sheet music, cast iron mechanical bank, a daguerreotype, tintype, real photo postcard and CDV collection.
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