Hell Gate Bridge / General View from Long Island Shore / 10/1915
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- Title
- Hell Gate Bridge
- General View from Long Island Shore
- Date
- 10/1915
- Country
- United States
- Current Site
- New York
- Work Type
- Transportation Facilities
- Sub-heading
- Bridges; Aqueducts
- Notes
- Completed in 1916, the Hell Gate Bridge crosses the East River at Hell Gate. It was designed as a four-track railway bridge by Gustav Lindenthal for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Lindenthal served as consulting engineer for the bridge's construction, which began in 1914, with the help of Othmar Ammann as assistant chief engineer. Little Hell Gate was built to cross the water between Wards and Randalls Island.
- Accession
- LS017909
- View / Detail
- General view
- Originating Collection
- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Michigan
- Slide Producer
- G. R. Swain, Latin Dept. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Date Added/Updated
- 2012-11-26 03:34:52
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- Image Size
- 3508 x 2421
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- LS017909
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/u/ummu2ic/x-ls017909/ls017909
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"Hell Gate Bridge; General View from Long Island Shore; 10/1915." In the digital collection Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/u/ummu2ic/x-ls017909/ls017909. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.