The great East River bridge: to connect the cities of New York & Brooklyn – Vintage Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The great East River bridge: to connect the cities of New York & Brooklyn. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The great East River bridge: to connect the cities of New York & Brooklyn
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Rather than a scene of the river itself, this hand-colored lithograph presents the East River bridge as a project still taking shape, with its title stating the aim plainly: to tie Manhattan and Brooklyn together. In 1872 they were separate cities with their own governments, and the crossing was meant to join their growing populations. Work had begun in 1869 under John A. Roebling, who died that summer, and his son Washington Roebling carried the engineering forward. The bridge did not open until 1883, so the print captures an ambitious public work in its early years, when its scale was still more promise than reality.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2808 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,600 × 3,000 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174624 |
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