The great St. Louis Bridge - across the Mississippi River – Historic Reproduction
![The great St. Louis Bridge - across the Mississippi River, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [1874?] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ae/aecb16f7151c-L.webp)
(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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The great St. Louis Bridge - across the Mississippi River comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The great St. Louis Bridge - across the Mississippi River
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Few American bridges of the 1870s drew as much public attention as the Eads Bridge, which spans the Mississippi at St. Louis and is the subject of this hand-colored lithograph. Designed by engineer James B. Eads and completed in 1874, it was the first major bridge across the river at that point, and its steel arches and deep foundations sunk with pneumatic caissons were considered daring at the time. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued popular prints of American subjects, shows the structure with river traffic moving beneath it, a reminder of how central steamboat commerce was to the city. The printed text along the sheet gives the bridge's dimensions and cost, details that make the image useful for understanding how the project was presented to the public.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [1874?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Text on print gives specifics of size, cost, & details. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2872 |
| Subjects | Eads Bridge (Saint Louis, Mo.) Bridges--Missouri--Saint Louis--1870-1880. Boats--Missouri--Saint Louis--1870-1880. Mississippi River--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,135 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111842 |
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