Eads Bridge
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The Eads Bridge is a combined road and rail bridge over the Mississippi River connecting the cities of St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois. It is located on the St. Louis riverfront betw
The bridge in 2025
Poster showing the construction of the bridge in different phases, ca. 1874.
An 1875 drawing of Eads Bridge by Camille N. Dry.
Toll collection in 1939
Andrew Carnegie
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Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late-19th century and became one of the richest Americans in
Eads Bridge
…2014. The Eads Bridge was built by the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company. A subcontractor was the Keystone Bridge Company, founded in 1865 by Andrew Carnegie, which erected the steel superstructure. The growth of railroads since the Civil War had depressed river shipping trade, and Chicago was fast gaining…
Carnegie, c. 1913
Birthplace of Andrew Carnegie in Dunfermline, Scotland
Carnegie, age 16, with younger brother Thomas, c. 1851
Pullman sleeping car, where Carnegie made one of his most successful investments