The great East River suspension bridge--Connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn / Parsons & Atwater, del. – Antique Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The great East River suspension bridge--Connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn / Parsons & Atwater, del.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The great East River suspension bridge--Connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn / Parsons & Atwater, del.
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Here the bridge is still under construction, shown as a stone-towered span stretching over the East River with sailing vessels and steamers moving through the water below. Currier & Ives issued this color lithograph around 1874, when the Brooklyn Bridge was rising between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Engineer John A. Roebling designed the bridge, but he died in 1869 from an injury sustained at the site, and his son Washington Roebling carried the project forward until it opened in 1883. The print reflects the public excitement over a structure that promised faster travel between the two cities and drew the river's busy shipping into its picture.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2809 Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. |
| Subjects | Suspension bridges--New York (State)--1870-1880. Vessels--New York (State)--1870-1880. Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,223 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175491 |
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