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Bridge across Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, LA, circa 1937

Subjects
Bridges & DamsLakes & Ponds
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1930 (White Border)
Front of Bridge across Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, LA, circa 1937, c. 1930 linen postcard
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Back of Bridge across Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, LA, circa 1937, c. 1930 linen postcard
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A long concrete highway bridge on piers curves out across the blue water of Lake Pontchartrain, with two small red-roofed toll or draw-tender houses at the near end. The sky fades from pale blue to a warm sunset band at the horizon. The printed caption promotes the crossing as the world's longest concrete highway bridge, five miles long and built at a cost of $5,500,000, carrying the Old Spanish Trail into New Orleans from the east.

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PublisherCurt Teich & Co.
Bridge across Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, La. World's Longest Continuous Concrete Highway Bridge WORLD'S LONGEST CONCRETE HIGHWAY BRIDGE The bridge across Lake Pontchartrain, en- tering New Orleans on the Old Spanish Trail from the East. It is five miles long and cost $5,500,000.
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PublisherCurt Teich & Co.
Series7A-H3122
ConditionVery good
Place depictedLake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, LA
Place mentionedNew Orleans, LA
Place mentionedLake Pontchartrain, LA
PublisherCurt Teich & Co., New Orleans, LA
NotesLinen-textured stock with visible cross-hatch grain; image runs to the card edges with no white border. Slight corner wear. No postmark. Divided-back C.T. Art-Colortone linen card, no white border; pencil dealer mark '—9 / 311' on back, no stamp and no address written. Printed distributor credit for A. Hirschwitz, New Orleans, La.

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Bridge across Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, LA, circa 1937, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/bridge-across-lake-pontchartrain-new-orleans-la-circa-1937. Accessed November 2, 2026.