Looking up East River showing Brooklyn Bridge and the new suspension bridge, New York – Vintage 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Looking up East River showing Brooklyn Bridge and the new suspension bridge, New York. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Looking up East River showing Brooklyn Bridge and the new suspension bridge, New York
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Looking up the East River, this stereograph frames the Brooklyn Bridge alongside the newer suspension span beside it, the Williamsburg Bridge, which had opened only a few years before this view was made around 1904. The Brooklyn Bridge, completed in 1883 under the direction of John A. Roebling and his son Washington, was then the city's best-known crossing, and the second span shows how quickly New York was adding river links. Steamboats working the busy water below give a sense of the harbor traffic that made these bridges necessary. The card was produced by William H. Rau, a Philadelphia photographer known for commercial stereo views, and it was meant to be seen through a viewer for a three-dimensional effect.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H41385 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by William H. Rau. No. 5614. |
| Subjects | Suspension bridges--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910. Steamboats--New York (State)--New York--1900-1919. Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,257 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179844 |
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