Floating dam / S. Russel, delt. ; Kell Bros. lithrs., Holborn. – Vintage Wall Art
![Floating dam / S. Russel, delt. ; Kell Bros. lithrs., Holborn., [published 1860] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/da/dad481f23ba1-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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This rare antique lithograph captures Floating dam / S. Russel, delt. ; Kell Bros. lithrs., Holborn. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Floating dam / S. Russel, delt. ; Kell Bros. lithrs., Holborn.
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This lithograph shows a floating dam, a temporary barrier used during the construction of the Victoria Bridge at Montreal, where workers sank the piers into the bed of the St. Lawrence. Such structures helped hold back the swift current and drifting ice so that building could proceed in calmer water. The plate appeared near the end of James Hodges' 1860 account of the bridge, published in London by John Weale that same year, when the Prince of Wales opened the crossing. Its bird's-eye viewpoint also conveys the width of the river that steamboats had to navigate around the works.
| Created / published | [published 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1860.Lithographs Color 1860. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Construction of the great Victoria Bridge in Canada / James Hodges. London : published by John Weale, 1860, next to last plate. |
| Subjects | Bridge construction--Canada--Montreal--1860. Rivers--Canada--Montreal--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,444 × 1,153 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216531 |
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