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15.50" x 12.00"
Tower Bridge in Sacramento Framed Print
by Carol M Highsmith
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Tower Bridge in Sacramento framed print by Carol M Highsmith. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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The Tower Bridge, The Tower Bridge, is a vertical lift bridge across the Sacramento River, linking West Sacramento in Yolo County to the west, with... more
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The Tower Bridge, The Tower Bridge, is a vertical lift bridge across the Sacramento River, linking West Sacramento in Yolo County to the west, with the capital of California, Sacramento, in Sacramento County to the east.
The bridge's style represents a rare use of Streamline Moderne architectural styling in a lift bridge, making it an expression of the social and architectural climate of the period of construction.
On December 15, 1935, then-governor Frank Merriam dedicated the bridge. The Tower Bridge was the first vertical lift bridge in the California Highway System.
For years, the bridge was painted silver, but people complained about glare off the bridge. In June 1976 it was painted a yellow-ochre color, to be representative of the gold leafed cupola on the nearby State Capitol.
In 2001, as the old paint job could hardly be distinguished, residents who lived within 35 miles (56 km) of the capital voted on a new color scheme. Their choices were burgundy...
About Carol M Highsmith
Carol M. Highsmith Influenced by Frances Benjamin Johnston and Dorothea Lange Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. [1] Photography Career “Is Carol Highsmith the most...
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