Terre Haute Postcards - Wabash River Bridge (2)

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Wabash River Bridge, Terre Haute, Indiana

This postcard, posted in Terre Haute on July 22nd, 1917, has the printed text...

R 24742
The Model

Wabash River Bridge, Terre Haute, Indiana

This postcard, stamped in 1918, has the printed text...

Published by A. Herz, Terre Haute, Ind.

Wabash River Bridge, Terre Haute, Ind.

This postcard, stamped on May 19th, 1921, has the printed text...

A-80758
Published by L. D. Smith, Terre Haute, Ind.
Made in U. S. A.
C. T. American Art
C. T. Chicago trademark logo

Wabash River Bridge, Terre Haute, Ind.

This unused linen-faced postcard has the printed text...

80758-N
Wabash Valley News Agency Inc., Terre Haute, Ind.
Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C.T. American Art" Post Card (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.)

In 1904, the Old Wagon bridge, which had stood since 1864, was replaced with a steel bridge designed by Malverd A. Howe of Rose Polytechnic Institute and James E. Starbuck of Vandalia railway engineering department in Terre Haute. This bridge cost about $192,000, but the total project cost $271,200. This figure included the removal of the old bridge and the building of a temporary one to be used while the steel one was being finished. The bridge opened in 1905. Eight-seven years later, history repeated itself when two two-lane bridges, the Theodore Dreiser bridge and the Paul Dresser bridge, were built to span the Wabash and replace the old steel bridge.

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