Bushwick / Ann Arbor / Williamsburgh / Nassau / Old Town / Boston / Township / Philadelphia / New Amsterdam / Long Island / London / New York City / Hoboken / /
Company
DeForrest / United States Bridge Company / Common Sense / Charles Van Benthuysen and Sons / /
Country
United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Facility
Brooklyn Bridge / Great East River Bridge / Chatham Square / Stevens Institute / American Institute / Brooklyn Museum / Canal Street / Green-Wood Cemetery / The Great East River Bridge / Morris Canal / University Microfilms / The American Institute / Bridge Architecture / Flying Pendent Lever Bridge / /
IndustryTerm
passenger travel / steel / /
NaturalFeature
East River / Governors Island / Manhattan Island / Hudson River / North River / /
Organization
Common Council of New Amsterdam / American Institute of the City of New York / Congress / United States Congress / Stevens Institute / New York State Legislature / Long Island Historical Society / /
Person
Ezra Corning / William Vanderbilt / Henry R. Stiles / Thomas Kirk / Julius W. Adams / Alfred P. Boller / Alexander Niven / John Jacob Astor / John Stevens / Millstein / John Roebling / Cornelius Dircksen / Brooklyn Heights / Jasper Dankers / Thomas Dongan / David Bates Douglas / A. A. Low / Alexander T. Stewart / Peter Sluyter / / /
Position
civil engineer / architect and a landscape gardener / Chief Engineer / scientist / actually completed model / founder / Colonel / Governor / Director / designer / correspondent / Alternatives Barbara Head / Major / bridge engineer / /
ProvinceOrState
New Jersey / Kings County / New / /
PublishedMedium
the Brooklyn Eagle / the Dankers and Sluyter journal / /
Crossing the River: The Alternatives Barbara Head Millstein from The Great East River Bridge, 1883–1983 (New York: Brooklyn Museum, The most important fact about the East River is that it is not a river at all.