City - Cincinnati, OH - The City of Cincinnati 1906 Baby Onesie

Colorized photo from 1906
Original title: A View from Suspension Bridge, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: Cincinnati, OH

The city in front of us is Covington, KY, we are standing in Cincinnati. It really isn't much of a view though.

On the left is the Roebling Bridge, built in 1865, designed by John Roebling. He was the same designer of he Brooklyn Bridge (but died before seeing its completion). The Roebling bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the world. Spanning 1,057 feet over the river and 2,253 feet between the two anchorages. The towers are 230 feet tall and weigh 32,000 tons each.

It cost $1.8 million to build, which is roughly $30 million today. It took 10 years to build and only 2 workers died making it. When it was opened it cost 3 cents to cross and a little more if you were on a horse.

You may be looking at this and wondering why it isn't blue. Well it wasn't a blue bridge, it was actually brown, more sp...

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