The Celebrated Kentucky River Bridge
Photograph
The Celebrated Kentucky River Bridge
ca. 1880
Albumen silver prints
Image (each): 3 3/4 × 3 1/8 in. (9.5 × 8 cm)
Mount: 3 3/4 × 6 7/8 in. (9.5 × 17.5 cm)
Museum accession
1981.7999.0001
Inscriptions [no inscriptions on recto]
Printed on verso, C: Picturesque Scenery, \ ON THE \ Cincinnati Southern Railway, \ Series No. 1. \THE CELEBRATED \ Kentucky River Bridge, \ Showing all stages of progress during erection up to com- \ pletion, being the highest bridge in the world-\ 236 Feet from Foundation of Piers to top of Rails. \ Photographed and Published by \ JAMES MULLEN, LEXINGTON, Ky. \ The number underscored names the Picture on this card. \ [list of images No. 1-17] / No. 18 [underlined] Finished Bridge from mouth of Dix river. / [list of images No. 19-20]
Printed on verso, C: Picturesque Scenery, \ ON THE \ Cincinnati Southern Railway, \ Series No. 1. \THE CELEBRATED \ Kentucky River Bridge, \ Showing all stages of progress during erection up to com- \ pletion, being the highest bridge in the world-\ 236 Feet from Foundation of Piers to top of Rails. \ Photographed and Published by \ JAMES MULLEN, LEXINGTON, Ky. \ The number underscored names the Picture on this card. \ [list of images No. 1-17] / No. 18 [underlined] Finished Bridge from mouth of Dix river. / [list of images No. 19-20]
