[Elevations and plans of culvert and trestle bridges] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Elevations and plans of culvert and trestle bridges], [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ed/ed85fa00dec7-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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A window into the past: [Elevations and plans of culvert and trestle bridges], preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Elevations and plans of culvert and trestle bridges]
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This lithograph sets out elevations and plans for culvert and trestle bridges, showing the same structures from the side and from above so a builder could work from them. It appears as plate 7 in a civil engineering text, likely the treatise associated with Dennis Hart Mahan, a longtime professor at West Point who taught engineering to generations of officers. Timber trestles and stone or masonry culverts were the workhorse structures of early American railroads and roads, carrying tracks and traffic across ravines and streams. The caption card gives no date, so the drawing's exact period is unknown, but its purpose as instruction is clear.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Mahan, Civil Engineering. pl. 7. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bridges; Engineering, Civil. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,180 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150348 |
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