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Roebling's Great Dream for the World's Largest Bridge

Drawings of the Brooklyn Bridge were first produced by John A. Roebling in the 1850s. This print from the mid-1860s shows the "contemplated" bridge.
Roebling's Great Dream for the World's Largest Bridge
This drawing of the bridge is an accurate rendition of how the proposed bridge would look. The stone towers had arches reminiscent of cathedrals. And the bridge would dwarf anything else in the separate cites of New York and Brooklyn.

Grateful acknowledgment is extended to the New York Public Library Digital Collections for this drawing as well as other vintage illustrations of the Brooklyn Bridge in this gallery.

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