New York and Brooklyn Bridge: Promenade and Manhattan [street railroad] Terminal – Historic Photograph Print
![New York and Brooklyn Bridge: Promenade and Manhattan [street railroad] Terminal, c1898. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f1/f1203dbca317-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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures New York and Brooklyn Bridge: Promenade and Manhattan [street railroad] Terminal in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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New York and Brooklyn Bridge: Promenade and Manhattan [street railroad] Terminal
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This print looks across the Brooklyn Bridge's elevated pedestrian promenade toward the Manhattan end, where the bridge's street railroad terminal gathered the lines that carried passengers onto the span. The bridge, completed in 1883 and designed by John A. Roebling and his son Washington Roebling, was among the first large steel-wire suspension bridges, and its separate levels for walkers, vehicles and trains were a novel arrangement for the period. The photograph dates from about 1898, when the bridge was already a busy link between the two cities. The caption details come from an unverified card, so the exact vantage point and date are worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by George P. Hall. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Bridges; St. RR. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,198 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151659 |
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