Brooklyn Bridge by unknown artist

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Brooklyn Bridge by unknown artist

This photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge, built between1869 and 1883, highlights the suspension cable, deck and stone masonry piers. The bridge, towering far above the East River, connects Brooklyn with lower Manhattan, seen in the distance. In 1883, Harper's Weekly described the bridge, "The work which is most likely to become our most ultra-sturdy monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge."