New York - method of working the car-cable of the East River Bridge – Vintage Wall Art
(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 rare antique engraving captures New York - method of working the car-cable of the East River Bridge in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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New York - method of working the car-cable of the East River Bridge
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This wood engraving shows the method of working the car-cable on the East River Bridge, the span now known as the Brooklyn Bridge, as the structure neared completion in 1883. It ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* in late August of that year, a few months after the bridge opened to traffic in May. Engravings like this were the main way weekly papers showed readers large engineering works before photographs could be reproduced easily in print. The bridge's cables were spun and erected by hand over several years, and the image gives a sense of the specialized, physically demanding labor behind that construction.
| Created / published | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1883 Aug. 25), p. 5. Ref. copy may be in Geog. File (Gr) - NEW YORK--N.Y.C.--BRIDGES--BROOKLYN. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Bridges--Constr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,123 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-154975 |
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