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[Cleveland, Ohio, lift bridge] – Vintage Print

[Cleveland, Ohio, lift bridge], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Cleveland, Ohio, lift bridge], [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Cleveland 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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This view shows a lift bridge in Cleveland, Ohio, where a span rises vertically between towers to let ships pass beneath. The Cuyahoga River, which runs through the city's industrial Flats, carried heavy traffic of iron ore, coal, and steel, so bridges there had to balance road and rail crossings with the needs of Great Lakes shipping. The picture is one of the Detroit Publishing Company's glass-plate negatives, made roughly between 1900 and 1920, when the company documented American cities and landscapes for sale as photographs and color prints.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
NotesTitle from jacket. No. 104
SubjectsDrawbridges.United States--Ohio--Cleveland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74789

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