CHICAGO: Passing Beneath the Old State Street Bridge, c1905

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Project engineers demonstrating the cantilever principles of the Forth Bridge in Scotland, 1887

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Barton Aqueduct, Manchester Ship Canal

Danish State Railways Poster (DSB, 1937)

This beautiful poster for the Danish State Railway (DSB) was advertising the Vogelfluglinie, the main rail transport between between Copenhagen, Denmark, and Hamburg, Germany.

The stunning artwork was done by Danish artist Aage Rasmussen, known for his art deco, cubist and modernist travel posters. +

The Storstrøm Bridge is a road and railway arch bridge is 3,199 metres long and 9 metres wide. The longest span is 136 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 26 metres.

It was opened by King Christian X on 26 September 1937.

Arches of Westminster Bridge – Samuel Scott c.1750

Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary’s daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New York, ships mate Gatson sexually attacks her.

The Captain knocks Gatson overboard in an ensuing scuffle. A romance developing between the Captain and Miss Clark is put to the test in New York after an assault investigation uncovers the girl’s questionable past.

-His Woman on IMDb

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Gary Cooper & Claudette Colbert in “His Woman” (1931).

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Lost London

London Yesterday

Quaint Key West; vintage postcard folder

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The Coaly Tyne: the high level bridge.

Robert Jobling (?), from The Magazine of Art vol. 6, London, Paris, New York, 1883.

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The Bridge

Sydney Lee, from The Graphic Arts of Great Britain, by Malcolm C. Salaman & Charles Holme, London, Paris, New York, 1917

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Margaret Bourke-White - Hohenzollern Bridge, Cologne 1945