2-752-381 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'City of Louisville', 1874. Steam locomotives on the Fourteenth Street Bridge and paddles steamers on the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The Fourteenth Street Bridge was a truss drawbridge, also known as the Ohio Falls Bridge, built by the Louisville Bridge Company and completed in 1870. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]