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Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn from New York – Historic Reproduction

Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn from New York — historic photograph
Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn from New York. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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This rare historic photograph captures Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn from New York in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn from New York

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The Brooklyn Bridge, opened in 1883 and designed by John A. Roebling and completed under his son Washington Roebling, is the subject of this view, shown here together with the Brooklyn shoreline that the span joins to Manhattan. Photographs of the bridge were a staple of American views of New York by the late 1930s, when its Gothic stone towers and web of steel cables had become a symbol of the city. The record credits the photographer Irving Underhill, a New York commercial photographer, and the card's notes are unverified, so the exact date and vantage point should be treated with some caution.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1939.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by Irving Underhill, N.Y. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--Bridges; Photog. I.; NY--NYC--Views--ca. 1939; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,188 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137570

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