The Brooklyn Bridge (or the East River Bridge, as this 1920 postcard charmingly calls it) is many things.
It’s a display of engineering might, a graceful web of wire over water, a symbol of New York’s unity, the embodiment of promise and possibility. Let it be a source of inspiration during this time when our city has been tested.
[MCNY F2011.33.1882]
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June 8, 2020 at 2:13 pm |
I think you meant embodiment. Jeffrey Bernard
June 8, 2020 at 2:29 pm |
Thank you, E.B. White.
June 8, 2020 at 3:50 pm |
Thanks, fixed!
June 10, 2020 at 5:34 pm |
Does anyone know what “Parisian sauce” is? The term alone makes me smile with at its possible meanings.
June 12, 2020 at 4:31 am |
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:gq67k1425
June 13, 2020 at 4:06 am
Love this old ad, thanks for digging it up!
June 14, 2020 at 4:55 pm
Thank you, joe! What a great ad! I enjoyed the prose piece, as well – possibly the only ad copy I’ve ever read that uses the word “piquancy.”
June 11, 2020 at 5:11 am |
1880s architecture and engineering, and still up to the task!