Kansas City Bridge: Lowering First Section of Curb, No. 1, August 7, 1867
Attributed to
Joseph P. Babbitt
(American, born 1830)
Date1867
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 5 × 6 15/16 inches (12.7 × 17.62 cm)
Mount: 8 × 10 1/16 inches (20.32 × 25.56 cm)
Mount: 8 × 10 1/16 inches (20.32 × 25.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.255
Signednone
InscribedOn mount recto, top, in black ink: "Kansas City Bridge.";
On mount recto, bottom, in black ink: "Lowering first Section of Curb No.1";
On mount recto, lower right, in black ink: "August 7th 1867".
MarkingsOn mount recto, upper left corner, in black pen: "1";
On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: "MJPB_107_X"
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
The Kansas City Bridge (or Hannibal Bridge) was begun in January 1867 and finished in July 1869, under the supervision of chief engineer Octave Chanute. Eight piers had to be constructed to withstand the current of the Missouri River. This view documents the timber section to rest on one of these piers. While a series of photographs was included in Chanute's book The Kansas City Bridge (1870), this view appears to have been made outside that project.
David Boutros, "A Preliminary Survey of Photographers and Artists in Kansas City, Missouri, 1850 to 1882," (mss., 2004).
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Henry P. Moore
1862
2005.27.200
