A long steel arch railway bridge with spandrel columns spans a wooded gorge, a short train of dark cars crossing its deck, while whitewater rapids churn through the rocks below. The scene is framed as a picture within a wide gold border, a common presentation for early twentieth-century view cards. The structure resembles the great steel arch railroad bridges built over deep river gorges in the eastern United States around 1900, though the card itself names neither the bridge nor the river.
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Wide embossed gold frame border printed around the image; fine grainy screen texture typical of lithographic view cards; light wear along the frame edges.
No postmark. Divided-back "POST CARD" with correspondence/address panels and a rate stamp box (Domestic/Canada/Cuba/Mexico/Hawaii/Philippines/Porto Rico 1 Cent, Foreign 2 Cents); unused, no writing. Front shows a gold embossed frame and textured surface.
Cite this card
Steel arch railway bridge over a river gorge with rapids, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/steel-arch-railway-bridge-over-a-river-gorge-with-rapids-cir. Accessed October 25, 2026.
