New York--completing a great work--lashing the stays of the Brooklyn Bridge / from a sketch by a staff artist. – Antique Print
![New York--completing a great work--lashing the stays of the Brooklyn Bridge / from a sketch by a staff artist., [published 1883] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5f/5f3dbba0696f-L.webp)
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A window into the past: New York--completing a great work--lashing the stays of the Brooklyn Bridge / from a sketch by a staff artist., preserved in this antique engraving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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New York--completing a great work--lashing the stays of the Brooklyn Bridge / from a sketch by a staff artist.
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This wood engraving shows workers lashing the stays, the diagonal cables that fan from the towers down to the roadway, as the Brooklyn Bridge neared completion. It was drawn from a sketch by a staff artist and ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* on April 28, 1883, a few weeks before the bridge opened to traffic in May. The span was designed by John A. Roebling, who died in 1869 after an accident at the site, and it was finished under his son Washington Roebling, who directed the work from a sickroom after he was disabled by caisson disease. The picture captures the final, high-wire stage of a project that was then among the largest engineering efforts in the country.
| Created / published | [published 1883] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1880-1890.Wood engravings 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1883 April 28, p. [149] |
| Subjects | Bridge construction--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,237 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-178970 |
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