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4 unusual facts about Clarence Snyder


Clarence Snyder

A collection of his photographs is on display at the National Canal Museum at Two Rivers Landing in Easton, Pennsylvania.

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His photo of a silhouetted staircase rising inexplicably into the sky from a construction site appeared in Life magazine and was subsequently used by Frank Zappa for the cover of the album Stairway to Heaven.

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The museum has more than 1,000 photographs documenting the prominence of Bethlehem Steel, according to Lance Metz, the museum's historian.

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Snyder's photos featured such memorable events as the completion of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and Madison Square Garden, and showed ships carrying iron ore, skyscrapers under construction, and molten steel being poured.



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