(NEW YORK CITY) Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brook

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(NEW YORK CITY.) Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. Frontispiece. 4to, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear; tissue guard torn; inscribed on flyleaf by Emily Warren Roebling, 1901. Brooklyn, 1883

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During the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, then the longest suspension bridge in the world, chief engineer Washington Roebling became bedridden due to severe decompression illness. His wife Emily took over day-to-day management of the project, an unprecedented role for a woman in the engineering world at that time.