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Detroit-Superior high level bridge, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1916 – Vintage Print

Detroit-Superior high level bridge, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1916, c1916. — historic photograph
Detroit-Superior high level bridge, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1916, c1916.. Historic photograph from the Detroit collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Detroit-Superior high level bridge, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1916. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Detroit-Superior high level bridge, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1916

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The bridge in this view is Cleveland's Detroit-Superior High Level Bridge, not a Detroit landmark, though its name comes from the Detroit Avenue approach on the city's west side. The record dates the photograph to February 17, 1916, when the high level crossing over the Cuyahoga valley was taking shape and linking the west side with downtown Superior Avenue. Photographer Gus A. Fretter of Cleveland made the image, and it is worth looking at for the scale of the steel structure against the valley and the winter setting.

Created / publishedc1916.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Gus A. Fretter, Cleveland, Ohio. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Panoramas; Bridges; Rivers; Geogr. transferred to PAN US GEOG?
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 442 px · prints to 5 × 1 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137496

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