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King's Handbook of New York City / Wikimedia Commons
Croton Aqueduct Bridge (High Bridge) — King's Handbook (1893)
The High Bridge across the Harlem River from King's Handbook of New York City (1893). Shows the bridge in its original stone-arch form — a Roman-style aqueduct bridge that…
NYPL, Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views
High Bridge, Croton Aqueduct — Stereoscopic View (1864)
Stereoscopic photograph of the High Bridge carrying the Croton Aqueduct over the Harlem River, from the Robert N. Dennis collection. Stereoscopic views were the 3D photography of the Victorian era — viewed through a…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) HIGH BRIDGE GATEHOUSE (WEST) 1837-1848 Plate 29, New Croton Aqueduct HIGH BRIDGE STORE Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct The western gatehouse at High…
Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons
High Bridge and High Service Works — Lithograph (1841)
Early lithograph (1841) showing the planned High Bridge, the high service works, and the reservoir for the Croton Aqueduct system at the Harlem River crossing. This was drawn before the bridge was…
Harper's New Monthly Magazine / Wikimedia Commons
The High Bridge at Harlem — Harper's Magazine (1860)
Engraving of the iconic High Bridge carrying the Croton Aqueduct over the Harlem River. The oldest standing bridge in New York City, opened 1848, with Roman-style stone arches. From Harper…
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…The grade line of the aqueduct supplying water to Marseilles was 270 feet above the valley floor and of comparable length to High Bridge. The Croton High Bridge is without peer in antebellum America and is the centerpiece of the…
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Harlem River more navigable for larger ships 1929 1930 Hoover Dam construction begins 1933 Golden Gate Bridge construction begins 1931 1936 1939-45 World War II High Bridge designated a NYC Landmark 1970 High Bridge Aqueduct & Tower placed on National…
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BRIDGE ENGINEER’S Office c 1840s (Demolished) Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Interpretation Sign Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) 17 HIGH BRIDGE TOWER 1872 Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Type Rising 185 feet on a bluff in…
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…ships 1929 1930 Hoover Dam construction begins 1933 Golden Gate Bridge construction begins 1931 1936 1939-45 World War II High Bridge designated a NYC Landmark 1970 High Bridge Aqueduct & Tower placed on National Register of Historic Places 1972 1972…
NYPL / Detroit Publishing Company
High Bridge from the East — Postcard (1898)
Postcard view of the High Bridge from the east, showing the Croton Aqueduct bridge spanning the Harlem River. By 1898, the High Bridge had been carrying water for 50 years and was one…
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0)
High Bridge, New York — Henry Ward Ranger (1905)
Oil on canvas by Henry Ward Ranger (1858-1916) depicting the High Bridge carrying the Croton Aqueduct over the Harlem River. The oldest standing bridge in New York City, High Bridge was…
NYPL, I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection
…river, bridge, aqueduct, trees, rocks, person
Source: NYPL, I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection
License: Public domain
— NOTE: This entry was generated from photo metadata using AI vision analysis and automated tools. Details may contain errors. Refer to the original source…
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…With the completion of High Bridge in 1848, artists and the public alike got an extraordinary arcadian view of the Aqueduct. As early as 1843, Tower had noted that High Bridge "... will be the most interest- ing work on the…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2015/06/10/celebrating-high-bridge/
Celebrating High Bridge
High Bridge stands as one of America's most significant early engineering achievements and New York City's oldest existing bridge. Originally designed as a component of the Old Croton Aqueduct system, this structure conveyed water across…
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…Aqueduct trail and attractions along the way. An ongoing project is the restoration and adaptive reuse of the keeper’s house in Dobbs Ferry into a visitors center, and the Friends also play an active role in the High Bridge…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/11/22/the-mystery-of-the-lost-high-bridge-watch/
…The bridge should not be confused with the more famous High Bridge that carried the Croton Aqueduct across the Harlem River.
The advertisement raises intriguing questions: Why would someone commission an engraved watch depicting a relatively obscure local bridge? Why…
NYPL, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (F.B. Tower)
Croton Aqueduct Harlem River Crossing
The image depicts the Croton Aqueduct crossing the Harlem River, showcasing the original High Bridge design with stone arches. The scene includes a river with sailboats and steamboats, a grassy bank with trees, and people…
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…The water in the large aqueduct of masonry would, with much more uncer- tainty, be protected from frost on the high bridge, from the greatly elevated exposure and difficulty in surrounding it with a sufficient quantity of earth, than when…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…great High Bridge. Over the bridge, which crosses the Harlem Valley and the river, the water thus brought is conveyed in immense iron pipes, so huge that a very tall man can stand erect within them. Then the aqueduct of…
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…This exposure and the painting's subsequent issuance as an etching probably made High Bridge from Harlem Lane the best known Aqueduct painting of this later period. Artists, writers, and the general public also associated the Croton water system with…
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…Alien: "The object is, I believe, to make the men feel the want of work ..." Jervis Pubiic Library, Rome, NY High Bridge During Construction of the Large Main, Viewed from the West Gate House, fooking East, 1861 [2 versions]; High…
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…Gimber Reproduction, courtesy of The Historical Society of the Tarrytowns Checklist Evelyn Fitzgerald, Detail, Croton Aqueduct Ventilator Inscription Reproduction from contemporary slide Collection, Dobbs Ferty Historical Society, Dobbs Ferry, NY Possibly by John B. Jervis, Aqueduct Bridge at Sing Sing…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/08/31/birds-eye-views-of-the-croton-aqueduct-1879-1887/
…This was "the first true attempt at a perspective map of the city" and "a stunning achievement for the time." The detailed map displays all three major components of the Old Croton Aqueduct system: High Bridge and its water tower…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/03/30/croton-aqueduct-puzzles/
Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
This piece explores two nineteenth-century jigsaw puzzles featuring the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, part of a collection called "Sliced Objects" published by E. G. Selchow & Co. between approximately 1867 and 1880.
Selchow was a…
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…In addition to the High Bridge, other key structures along the aqueduct that took shape during these years included the Croton Dam (an initial version of which ruptured in 1841, unleashing a lethal flood), the Sing Sing Kill Bridge, the…
Library of Congress
…Jervis showing workers tunnelling through earth during the construction of the Croton Aqueduct. Jervis designed the entire 41-mile system, including the dam, aqueduct, and High Bridge.
Date: 1837
Type: illustration
Subjects: tunnel, workers, construction, aqueduct
Text visible in image…
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…Viewed from the Westchester Side of the Harlem River, 1861; Sing Sing Bridge, Croton Aqueduct, Showing the Road Bridge Underneath It, 1863 From Photographic Views of the High Bridge and the Gate Houses of the New Reservoir (belonged to third…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…a high bridge; so that the abandonment of the adopted project would mean an added expense to the city of more than half a million dollars. Moreover, the original calculations of the total probable cost of the aqueduct from the…
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…An Aqueduct Bridge built of stone, having arches resting upon piers and abutments, was proposed so as to continue the Aqueduct across with its regular inclination. An Inverted Syphon of iron pipes was proposed ; the pipes to descend to a…
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…of economy induced them to build the work only high enough to comply with the requirements of the law. The plan which has been adopted for building an Aqueduct bridge across this valley is as follows : on the south shore…