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The now (as of 2015) closed and private Aetnaville Bridge, constructed in 1891, which connected Wheeling Island (part of Wheeling, West Virginia) to what is now Bridgeport, Ohio, across a back channel of the Ohio River

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The now (as of 2015) closed and private Aetnaville Bridge, constructed in 1891, which connected Wheeling Island (part of Wheeling, West Virginia) to what is now Bridgeport, Ohio, across a back channel of the Ohio River

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The bridge was closed to automobile traffic in 1988 but remained an active pedestrian bridge. The rickety bridge was scheduled to be demolished on February 28, 2015 but still stood at the time of this photograph, almost three months later. Local residents were fighting to save this bridge, asserting that it was a necessary and popular pedestrian footwalk and part of a five state-wide bicycle and jogging trail.
Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).
Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)

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2000 - 2020
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Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
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East Wheeling40.06424, -80.71008
Google Map of 40.0642394, -80.710081
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Library of Congress
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