Opening of Brooklyn Bridge Celebration, 1883

Lithograph entitled and captioned: The Grand display of fireworks and illuminations at the opening of the great suspension bridge between New York and Brooklyn on the evening of May 24, 1883. The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 1, 595.5 feet, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge. Since its opening, it has become an icon of New York City, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972

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