The great East River suspension bridge--Connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn / Parsons & Atwater, del. – 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 antique lithograph captures The great East River suspension bridge--Connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn / Parsons & Atwater, del. in remarkable detail. 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 suspension bridge--Connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn / Parsons & Atwater, del.
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The Brooklyn Bridge is the particular subject here, shown in a color lithograph by Parsons and Atwater that Currier & Ives published around 1874, while the bridge was still under construction. The print presents the span as a triumph of engineering linking Manhattan and Brooklyn, with the East River below crowded with sailing vessels and steamboats that moved through the harbor. Designed by John A. Roebling and completed under his son Washington Roebling, the bridge opened in 1883 and became one of the city's defining landmarks. Prints like this one helped the public follow a project that many New Yorkers watched rise over the water.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2809 Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. |
| Subjects | Suspension bridges--New York (State)--1870-1880. Vessels--New York (State)--1870-1880. Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 6,118 × 4,976 px · prints to 20 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218495 |
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