The "Purple People Bridge" across the Ohio River to the northern Kentucky suburbs from the Cincinnati, Ohio, waterfront
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Officially called the Newport Southbank Bridge, the bridge opened in 1872 as a railroad bridge connecting Cincinnati to Newport. The bridge was restored as a pedestrian-only span in late 2001 by the city of Newport, Kentucky and Southbank Partners, an economic development group.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-4).
Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Date
01/01/2016
Location
Cincinnati
Source
Library of Congress
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