Grand Birds-Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge – Vintage Wall Art
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This historic image of Grand Birds-Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Grand Birds-Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge
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Before it became known as the Brooklyn Bridge, this structure was called the Great East River Bridge, and the title places it at the center of the waterfront. Designed by John A. Roebling, who died in 1869 after an accident at the building site, it was completed under his son Washington Roebling and daughter-in-law Emily Warren Roebling. Opened in 1883, it joined Manhattan and Brooklyn and held the record as the longest suspension span in the world. Birds-eye views like this one were a popular way for 19th-century readers to see a growing city and its new engineering.
| Original scan | 1,000 × 692 px |
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| Reference | 1895NYBrooklynBridge |
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