Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1869-1883: An Illustrated History with Images in 3D (Signed Copy!)

Members save 10% on eligible products at checkout with their ID number. By Green-Wood Cemetery historian Jeffrey I. Richman This is the captivating story of how the Brooklyn Bridge―a structure of unprecedented size and technology―was built during an age of remarkable innovation. Spanning the East River, the bridge connected for the first time the then independent cities of Brooklyn and New York. People could now travel high above one of the busiest waterways in the world, journeying across by foot, horse-drawn carriage, or railway as they took in the magnificent views. This awe-inspiring structure was not only a modern engineering feat of extraordinary imagination, fortitude, and skill, it also was a towering beacon of human triumph. Author Jeffrey Richman has gathered 253 superb nineteenth-century images, many never before published on the printed page, including engineering drawings, photographs, stereographs (seen in 3D using a viewer), woodcuts, and colored lithographs. He also sp