Various City Postcards

This postcard has an image of the Queensboro Bridge in New York City.

The back of the postcard contains information about the bridge: "The Queensboro Bridge over Easter River and Blackwells Island from East 59th Street, Manhattan, to Long Island City, is a great cantilever structure 7636 feet long, clear height over channel 135 ft., height of island towers 324 ft., begun in 1901, opened March 30, 1909; total cost $29,000,000."

The bridge was completed in 1909. Take a look at the foreground and the background in this postcard. What can you learn from the postcard? First, there are ships on the river to move goods and people. Second, there is not much of a city in the background.

If you were to take the same picture in the city today, what do you think would be different? What would be the same?