Glass plate negative depicting scenes from the construction of Blackwell's Island Bridge in 1895, a cantilever bridge that connects Queens to Manhattan. The bridge, now called the Queensboro Bridge (its official name being the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge) was offically completed in 1909. However, the state charter to build the bridge was given on April 16, 1867, with the contract awarded to begin construction on March 25, 1881. Due to financial and legal issues, construction kept starting and stopping. These negatives depict the construction that took place in 1895, which was later halted. The name of the bridge was given for the name of the the island, Blackwell's Island, siutated in the East River between Manhattan and Queens that the bridges mid-river supporting piers were built on. The island today is called Roosevelt Island.
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Local Subjects
Bridges--Design and construction
Cantilever bridges--Design and construction
Cantilever bridges
New York (State)--New York--Queensboro Bridge
Eighteen nineties
glass plate negatives
Note
Digitized by the Metropolitan New York Library Council as part of the Culture In Transit project, funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Item number 160
Extent
1 glass plate negative ; 35cm x 28cm
Related Resource
General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, Industry and Culture Collection