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Changing draw span of Wabash R.R. Bridge, Hannibal, Mo., Sept. 5, 1913 – Vintage Wall Art

Changing draw span of Wabash R.R. Bridge, Hannibal, Mo., Sept. 5, 1913 — historic photograph
Changing draw span of Wabash R.R. Bridge, Hannibal, Mo., Sept. 5, 1913. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with Changing draw span of Wabash R.R. Bridge, Hannibal, Mo., Sept. 5, 1913, 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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Changing draw span of Wabash R.R. Bridge, Hannibal, Mo., Sept. 5, 1913

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The photograph shows the Wabash Railroad bridge at Hannibal, Missouri, where a draw span was being altered on September 5, 1913. The draw is the movable section that lets river traffic pass, so work on it mattered to steamboat operators and to the railroad that depended on the crossing. The Hannibal bridge had a famous earlier history: in 1869 the steamboat Effie Afton struck one of its piers, and the resulting lawsuits helped shape how courts balanced rail crossings against river navigation on the Mississippi.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1913 Sept. 5.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,142 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125360

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