Brooklyn Bridge tower above moored ships and timber barges – Antique Photo Print
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A window into the past: Brooklyn Bridge tower above moored ships and timber barges, preserved in this historic photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Brooklyn Bridge tower above moored ships and timber barges
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New York and Brooklyn in the mid-1870s, when the granite towers of the Brooklyn Bridge were rising above the East River. The span was designed by John A. Roebling, who died in 1869 of an infection after a ferry accident at the Fulton landing, and the work passed to his son Washington Roebling, who was disabled by caisson disease while working beneath the riverbed. The waterfront below was a busy edge of the port, where schooners, steamboats, and timber barges tied up at piers serving lumber yards and the shipping trade. Brooklyn was then a separate city across the water, and residents on both banks followed the towers' progress with pride, along with worry over the cost and the deaths among the men working in the caissons.
| Original scan | 568 × 1,403 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | NY 1896 Brooklyn Bridge 1 |
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