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New Portland Suspension Bridge, Spanning Carrabasset River, New Portla...

Significance: The New Portland (Wire) Bridge is the only early American suspension bridge that remains basically unaltered, aside from John A. Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct. It is also the only extant example of... More

Clear Fork of Brazos River Suspension Bridge, Spanning Clear Fork of B...

Significance: The Clear Fork of the Brazos Suspension bridge is one of seven surviving bridges in Texas that predate 1940. As one of three examples of the work by William Flinn of Weatherford, Texas, it preser... More

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Draft of ...

Chow Chow Suspension Bridge, Spanning Quinault River, Taholah, Grays H...

Significance: The Chow Chow Suspension Bridge was constructed by Native Americans living on the Quinault Indian Reservation about 1950. It consists of four timber king post trusses that are suspended from stee... More

Chow Chow Suspension Bridge, Spanning Quinault River, Taholah, Grays H...

Significance: The Chow Chow Suspension Bridge was constructed by Native Americans living on the Quinault Indian Reservation about 1950. It consists of four timber king post trusses that are suspended from stee... More

Chow Chow Suspension Bridge, Spanning Quinault River, Taholah, Grays H...

Significance: The Chow Chow Suspension Bridge was constructed by Native Americans living on the Quinault Indian Reservation about 1950. It consists of four timber king post trusses that are suspended from stee... More

Nisqually Suspension Bridge, Spanning Nisqually River on Service Road,...

Significance: The oldest surviving road bridge in Mount Rainier National Park, the Nisqually River Suspension Bridge is one of the few road-bearing suspension bridges in the National Park system. Although shor... More

Nisqually Suspension Bridge, Spanning Nisqually River on Service Road,...

Significance: The oldest surviving road bridge in Mount Rainier National Park, the Nisqually River Suspension Bridge is one of the few road-bearing suspension bridges in the National Park system. Although shor... More

Suspension Bridge Grand March / Strobridge & Co. Lith. Cin.

Print shows illustrated title page to sheet music for Suspension Bridge Grand March by Henry Mayer, which celebrates the opening of the John A. Roebling Bridge on the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Cov... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Jay Cooke State Park, Pedestrian Suspension Bridge, Minnesota Highway ...

Survey number: HAER MN-53 Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River at County Route 14...

Significance: The Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge is the oldest surviving cable-stayed suspension bridge in Texas and may also be the oldest in the United States. One of seven Texas suspension bridges surviving f... More

Waco Suspension Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at Bridge Street, Waco, ...

Significance: When completed in 1869, the 475'-0"-long Waco Suspension Bridge was the state's first major suspension bridge. The first bridge to span the Brazos River, it originally featured two castellated pi... More

Waco Suspension Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at Bridge Street, Waco, ...

Significance: When completed in 1869, the 475'-0"-long Waco Suspension Bridge was the state's first major suspension bridge. The first bridge to span the Brazos River, it originally featured two castellated pi... More

Waco Suspension Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at Bridge Street, Waco, ...

Significance: When completed in 1869, the 475'-0"-long Waco Suspension Bridge was the state's first major suspension bridge. The first bridge to span the Brazos River, it originally featured two castellated pi... More

Covington & Cincinnati Suspension Bridge, Spanning Ohio River, Covingt...

See also HAER No. OH-28, Cincinnati Suspension Bridge, for additional documentation. Significance: At the time of its completion this suspension bridge was the longest in the world. It remains one of the nation... More

[Clifton suspension bridge from the cliffs, Bristol, England]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10110". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

Barrage balloon manufacture. Making a suspension band. These workers a...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Great Falls, Montana. Electrolytic copper refinery of Anaconda Copper ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mid Hudson Suspension Bridge, Spanning Hudson River, Poughkeepsie, Dut...

Significance: "From the point of view of design, the span is one of the very finest American suspension bridges and particularly praised is the beauty of its towers." (p243, Plowden, Bridges: The Spans of North... More

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Clear Fork of Brazos River Suspension Bridge, Spanning Clear Fork of B...

Significance: The Clear Fork of the Brazos Suspension bridge is one of seven surviving bridges in Texas that predate 1940. As one of three examples of the work by William Flinn of Weatherford, Texas, it preser... More

The grand display of fireworks and illuminations: at the opening of th...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2691

The great East River suspension bridge: connecting the cities of New Y...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2821

Suspension Bridge, Spanning Kaskaskia River, Carlyle, Clinton County, ...

Nitrate negatives. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-57, FN-59, FN-60, FN-62, FN-63 Survey number: HABS IL-225 Building/structure dates: 1932 Building/structure dates: 1859- 1... More

Suspension Bridge, Spanning Kaskaskia River, Carlyle, Clinton County, ...

Nitrate negatives. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-57, FN-59, FN-60, FN-62, FN-63 Survey number: HABS IL-225 Building/structure dates: 1932 Building/structure dates: 1859- 1... More

Chow Chow Suspension Bridge, Spanning Quinault River, Taholah, Grays H...

Significance: The Chow Chow Suspension Bridge was constructed by Native Americans living on the Quinault Indian Reservation about 1950. It consists of four timber king post trusses that are suspended from stee... More

Chow Chow Suspension Bridge, Spanning Quinault River, Taholah, Grays H...

Significance: The Chow Chow Suspension Bridge was constructed by Native Americans living on the Quinault Indian Reservation about 1950. It consists of four timber king post trusses that are suspended from stee... More

Nisqually Suspension Bridge, Spanning Nisqually River on Service Road,...

Significance: The oldest surviving road bridge in Mount Rainier National Park, the Nisqually River Suspension Bridge is one of the few road-bearing suspension bridges in the National Park system. Although shor... More

Regency Suspension Bridge, Spanning Colorado River at County Route 126...

Significance: Spanning 340'-0" tower to tower, the Regency Suspension Bridge is one of five remaining suspension bridges in Texas. The bridge was built with mostly hand labor by area residents. Its 3 1/4"-dia... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Jay Cooke State Park, Pedestrian Suspension Bridge, Minnesota Highway ...

Survey number: HAER MN-53 Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Texas Suspension Bridges, Dr. Flinn's Model & Builders Plate, Austin, ...

Survey number: HAER TX-98-A Building/structure dates: after 1898 Subsequent Work

Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River at County Route 14...

Significance: The Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge is the oldest surviving cable-stayed suspension bridge in Texas and may also be the oldest in the United States. One of seven Texas suspension bridges surviving f... More

Waco Suspension Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at Bridge Street, Waco, ...

Significance: When completed in 1869, the 475'-0"-long Waco Suspension Bridge was the state's first major suspension bridge. The first bridge to span the Brazos River, it originally featured two castellated pi... More

Freight reduced. New York and Erie R. R. company's fast freight line f...

Transportation. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 122, Folder 12.

Kaibab Trail Suspension Bridge, Spanning Colorado River, Grand Canyon,...

Significance: This is the site of the first bridge crossing of the Colorado River within the Grand Canyon National Park. It comprises an excellent example of an early 20th century suspension bridge designed fo... More

Kaibab Trail Suspension Bridge, Spanning Colorado River, Grand Canyon,...

Significance: This is the site of the first bridge crossing of the Colorado River within the Grand Canyon National Park. It comprises an excellent example of an early 20th century suspension bridge designed fo... More

Kaibab Trail Suspension Bridge, Spanning Colorado River, Grand Canyon,...

Significance: This is the site of the first bridge crossing of the Colorado River within the Grand Canyon National Park. It comprises an excellent example of an early 20th century suspension bridge designed fo... More

Edmond Charles Genet, February 1793, Memorandum on Law Suspension

Memorandum on Law Suspension Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Notice. Bank of the Metroplis, May 12, 1837. Nothwithstanding the info...

On verso: 12 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 196, Folder 13.

[Lewiston & Queenston Suspension bridge, Niagara River, New York and C...

Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bidwell Bar Suspension Bridge & Stone Toll House, Near Lake Oroville (...

Significance: This structure is the only surviving suspension bridge in the American West dating to the mid 19th century. When reconstructed over Lake Oroville, it was "strengthened" with pile supports under t... More

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Edward Bates to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, July 05, 1861 (Opinion on su...

Edward Bates to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, July 05, 1861 (Opinion on su...

Edward Bates to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, July 05, 1861 (Opinion on su...

Boston. July 21, 1789. Sir. It being now considered as an established ...

Positive Photostat.; Ford 2541.; Not in Evans. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Pr... More

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Draft of ...

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

James River Suspension Bridge, Spanning James River, Route 11, Buchana...

Survey number: HAER VA-17 Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nisqually Suspension Bridge, Spanning Nisqually River on Service Road,...

Significance: The oldest surviving road bridge in Mount Rainier National Park, the Nisqually River Suspension Bridge is one of the few road-bearing suspension bridges in the National Park system. Although shor... More

John M. Read to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, July 15, 1863 (Telegram r...

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Cuthbert Bullitt to Salmon P. Chase, Saturday, June 20, 1863 (Suspens...

The Suspension and Railroad Bridge, over the American River, at Folsom...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1053. LOT subdivision subject: Bridges in Northern California. This record contains unverified old... More

Railroad and suspension bridges at Folsom, Sacramento County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1056. LOT subdivision subject: Bridges in Northern California. This record contains unverified dat... More

Bird's-eye view of the great suspension bridge, connecting the cities ...

O8864 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Franklin Square Litho. Co.

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Edward Bates to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, July 05, 1861 (Opinion on su...

Edward Bates to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, July 05, 1861 (Opinion on su...

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Suspension Bridge, Spanning Kaskaskia River, Carlyle, Clinton County, ...

Nitrate negatives. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-57, FN-59, FN-60, FN-62, FN-63 Survey number: HABS IL-225 Building/structure dates: 1932 Building/structure dates: 1859- 1... More

Henry M. Rice and Stephen Miller to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, Novemb...

Hamilton R. Gamble to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, December 31, 1862 (...

James River Suspension Bridge, Spanning James River, Route 11, Buchana...

Survey number: HAER VA-17 Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...

Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More

The whipping post; or, Gallows for the suspension of slanderers. [Wash...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 210, Folder 31.

Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, Wednesday, May 13, 1863 (Suspens...

Bridges. Single arch suspension bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylavania

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Lordville Suspension Bridge, Spanning Delaware River on Warren Road, H...

Survey number: HAER NY-79 Public domain photograph of electric wires, power line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, [June] 1863 (Copy No. ...

Edward Bates to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, July 05, 1861 (Opinion on su...

Edward Bates to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, July 05, 1861 (Opinion on su...

Clear Fork of Brazos River Suspension Bridge, Spanning Clear Fork of B...

Significance: The Clear Fork of the Brazos Suspension bridge is one of seven surviving bridges in Texas that predate 1940. As one of three examples of the work by William Flinn of Weatherford, Texas, it preser... More

Clear Fork of Brazos River Suspension Bridge, Spanning Clear Fork of B...

Significance: The Clear Fork of the Brazos Suspension bridge is one of seven surviving bridges in Texas that predate 1940. As one of three examples of the work by William Flinn of Weatherford, Texas, it preser... More