Great tubular bridge, Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal, Canada – Antique Print
(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 antique engraving captures Great tubular bridge, Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal, Canada 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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Great tubular bridge, Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal, Canada
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Few readers of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in 1856 would have known the Victoria Bridge by name, but the magazine's December 20 issue gave them a look at the tubular iron structure the Grand Trunk Railway was building across the St. Lawrence River at Montreal. The bridge was still under construction then and was not completed until 1859. Designed under the English engineer Robert Stephenson, its long line of rectangular iron tubes carrying the track was among the most ambitious railway projects in North America, and this wood engraving shows the scale of the work over the river.
| Created / published | 1856 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1856 Dec. 20, p. 41. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arch. Colls; Canada--Montreal; Railroad bridges; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,201 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141308 |
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