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Brooklyn Bridge - History in Captions

This is photo of the Brooklyn Bridge was taken in 1883, the year it was opened to the public. The photograph is available in its original form from the Library of Congress.

History of the Brooklyn Bridge

For easier viewing, here is a larger version of the graphic.

For further reading, I enjoyed the short book The New York and Brooklyn Bridge Illustrated, By Alfred C. Barnes. It is available, in its entirety, through Google Book Search.


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The New York and Brooklyn Bridge Illustrated By Alfred C. Barnes

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3 Comments

  1. I wish more books on Google were 100% available.

  2. You should have called it - The Brooklyn Bridge Deconstructed. Get it? Deconstructed!

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