Photo of the Day

March 11, 2010

Brooklyn Bridge

Location: New York, New York

Year: 1905-1920

Artist: Detroit Photographic Co.

A view of the pedestrian walkway on the upper level of the Brooklyn Bridge looking towards Manhattan. The bridge was completed in 1883 and was the first bridge across the East River to connect Manhattan to Brooklyn.

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March 10, 2010

Luna Park at Night, Coney Island

Location: New York, New York

Year: 1903-1906

Artist: Detroit Photographic Co.

A view of the famous night time light display at Luna Park. The lights were an impressive display at a time when electric lighting was still rare. Luna Park was an amusement park at Coney Island and ran from 1903 to 1944 when much of it was destroyed by fire.

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March 09, 2010

Jupiter Light

Location: Jupiter, Florida

Year: 1880-1897

Artist: William Henry Jackson

A view of the Jupiter Inlet Light with three Seminole Indians in the foreground. Completed in 1860, the lighthouse was built on an Indian shell mound, or midden.

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March 08, 2010

French Market

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

Year: c1910

Artist: Detroit Photographic Co.

Located downriver from Jackson Square in the French quarter of New Orleans, the French Market dates to 1791, though the oldest existing structures date to about 1813. This view shows the market where Decatur St. and N. Peters St. converge.

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March 07, 2010

Trestle Work - Promontory Point

Location: Salt Lake Valley, Utah

Year: 1868

Artist: Andrew J. Russell

Shows a train trestle with employees of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies near the point where the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Utah. The line was completed on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah within a year after this photo was taken.

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March 06, 2010

The California Limited

Location: Laguna, New Mexico

Year: c1899

Artist: Detroit Photographic Co.

Shows the California Limited, one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, crossing the New Mexico desert. The line ran from Chicago to Los Angeles from 1892 to 1954, the longest tenure of any train between Chicago and Los Angeles in the Santa Fe system.

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March 05, 2010

Mt. Lowe Railway

Location: Pasadena, California

Year: c1899

Artist: Detroit Photographic Co.

The Mt. Lowe Railway was a scenic railroad, built in 1893, that traveled seven miles up to the peak of Mt. Lowe in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California. The railway existed until 1938 when rain washed away almost everything from the mountainside.

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