Harlem Bridge, Now Being Erected Across the Harlem River, at the Terminus of the Third Avenue, New York

Inscription: in stone, under image at center: "Endicott & Co. Lith 59 Beekman St. New York"
in stone below image: "Harlem Bridge / Now Being Erected Across the Harlem River, At the Terminus of the Third Avenue, New York."
in stone below image at left and right: "Chief engineer: Erastus W. Smith / Contractor John Roach / Commissioners: William Miner / James Davis / Joseph Southworth / William H. Robertson / Alsop H. Lockwood."
in stone, lower center: "Abutments, face 100 feet of Cut Granite Masonry. Central Pier, diameter 50 feet, of twelve Cast Iron Columns 6 feet diameter, 2 inches thickness of metal, sunk to an average depth of 30 feet below the bed of the River or 58 feet below the high Water and filled with Stone Masonry / Intermediate Piers, of five Columns each, three of 6 feet and two of 8 feet diameter sunk to an average depth of 3 feet below the bed of the River, or 61 feet below the high Water and filled with Stone Masonry / Swing Span, length 218 feet, weight 330 tons, supported on ninety six rollers, 2 feet diameter, to be operated by hydraulic engines, using Croton Water. Openings, 80 feet. Fixed Spans, length 130 feet. / Length between the abutments 486 feet__Width 52 feet__1864."

Edward W. C. Arnold (American)

Peters 1931, p. 179; Stokes, Iconography III.906.226

Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, compiled from original sources. 5 vols., 1915–1928, vol. III, p. 906, no. 226.

Harry T. Peters America on Stone. 1931, p. 179.

Marilyn Symmes Impressions of New York: Prints from the New York Historical Society. New York, 2004, cat. no. 61, pp. 126-7, ill.