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The Grand Display of Fireworks and Illuminations at the Opening of the Great Suspension Bridge between New York and Brooklyn on the Evening of May 24, 1883. View from New York Looking towards Brooklyn.

1883
Color lithograph
30.5 × 44.5 cm (12 × 17.5 in)

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