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The Grande Lux of the Brooklyn Bridge

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Brooklyn Bridge Tall

Brooklyn Bridge, 1896. 

I find this a very moving image of the bridge, encompassing the small bit of uneven workmens’ construction material in the bottom/foreground of the image, which for me was it center, and which caused my eye to scan from there to the top of the tower.  The full mega-file of this beauty is a vertical panorama 40″x12″, and it seems as though you could push this to at least 60″x18″, and perhaps a full double to 80″x24″–it is impressive just seeing it on a monitor this big–in the Grande Lux tapestry version, I am sure it would fantastic.  [Source, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c04634/] 

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