The St. Louis Bridge: Erection of west and center arches. View looking northeast – Antique 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 historic print captures The St. Louis Bridge: Erection of west and center arches. View looking northeast 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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The St. Louis Bridge: Erection of west and center arches. View looking northeast
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Looking northeast, this view shows the west and center arches of the St. Louis Bridge partway through erection, with the steel spans reaching out from their piers over the Mississippi. Engineer James B. Eads designed the bridge, the first to cross the river at St. Louis, which opened in 1874. Its arches were built outward from the piers in cantilever fashion, without falsework propping them from below. This plate was reproduced from a photoprint in C.M. Woodward's 1881 history of the bridge, where it documents a method that drew wide attention from engineers.
| Created / published | 1881 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Repro. of photoprint. Illus. in: C.M. Woodward, A History of the St. Louis Bridge, 1881, pl. 42. Reference copy may be in SSF - Bridges. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Construction; Bridges. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,276 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-143556 |
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