The great East River suspension bridge: connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn – 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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A window into the past: The great East River suspension bridge: connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The great East River suspension bridge: connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn
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The lithograph's title names the bridge that was then linking Manhattan and Brooklyn across the East River, a suspension span that its designer, John A. Roebling, did not live to see built. Currier & Ives published the hand-colored print around 1881, while construction was still underway, so it captures a structure the public was following with great interest. The bridge opened in 1883 and became one of the most recognizable engineering achievements of its age. Prints like this one show how popular printmakers turned major civic projects into images for a broad middle-class audience.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1881. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2810 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,218 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174625 |
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