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Description: View of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, looking across the river from the south end of the Gay Street Bridge, circa late-1860s. The bridge shown was destroyed by a flood, and replaced by a covered bridge in 1875, which in turn was destroyed by a tornado after its construction. Click for modern view. Click for 1919 view.
Title: Gay-street-bridge-1860s-tn1
Credit: Robert Watson Gilder (ed.), Scribner's Monthly, Vol. 8 (May-October 1874), p. 22. Downloaded from Google Books, Full View.
Author: Unsigned sketch
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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