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- Description:
- Located at 207 E. Franklin Ave.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- On reverse: "The center span of a five-mile bridge being constructed across the Straits of Mackinac, connecting Michigan's two great peninsulas at Mackinac City on the lower, and St. Ignace on the upp-er. Designed by Dr. D. B. Steinman, this bridge has been engineered to withstand many times the recorded stresses of ice pressure, wind velocity, gravity, and so forth. Overall length of the bridge is 5 miles, has four lanes for traffic. Center span 3800 feet long between two 565-foot towers, water clearance of 150 feet. Construction started in May 1954, scheduled for opening in late 1957.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Photo of construction of concrete Michigan Avenue Bridge over the Grand River, 1893-1894. Looking northeast toward Lakeshore RR depot.
- Date Created:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- One of two variants.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Shows the East Grand River Avenue Bridge over the Grand River in North Lansing.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photographs of bridges and bridge construction in the greater Lansing area.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of flooding at Michigan Avenue bridge in March, 1904, Lansing. The Kalamazoo Street bridge is shown lodged under the Michigan Avenue bridge. The steel bridge was later taken back and erected at Kalamazoo Street.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- On reverse: "This engineering masterpiece, one of man's truly great achievements, forms a 4-lane ribbon of highway over the turbulent straits of Mackinac between St. Ignace and Mackinaw City, Michigan. Its contribution to the economy of Upper Michigan and the North Country cannot help but be significant. The overall length makes it the longest bridge of its type in the world. Opened in November of 1957, it has already carried thousands and thousands of vehicles between the two great peninsulas of Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of flooding near Michigan Avenue bridge in March, 1904, Lansing. The Kalamazoo Street bridge, swept from its foundation, is partially submerged in the river. It was later taken back and erected at Kalamazoo Street.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Leather postcard.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
