2-752-434 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Bridges on the Mississippi, at Dubuque', 1874. The city of Dubuque, Iowa, USA. 'Above, connected with paths that have been cut through the solid limestone, are the streets of the dwelling-houses. The approaches to these upper houses are mostly by stairs that might easily be called ladders...it is worth the trouble of mounting these ladders...to have such a landscape unrolled before the eye. There is a stretch of bare, sandy island in the centre of the river, across which comes the railway-bridge of the Illinois Central Railroad. There is, at the farther end of the island, a large shot-factory, and close to it the shot-tower, which darts up into the blue sky like a light flame'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]