East River Bridge, New York City – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
Step back in time with East River Bridge, New York City, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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East River Bridge, New York City
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Before "Brooklyn Bridge" became the usual name, this span over the East River was often called the East River Bridge, and this print uses that older title. Designed by John A. Roebling and completed under his son Washington Roebling, the suspension bridge opened in 1883 and gave Manhattan and Brooklyn a fixed crossing in place of the ferries. The record dates the print to about 1885 and credits a copyright to Herm. Briestler of New York City, though those details come from an old caption card and are unverified. The towers and cables dominate the view, a reminder of how new the structure looked then.
| Created / published | c1885. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by Herm. Briestler, N.Y.C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bridges; Geogr.; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,023 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-143829 |
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