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Tower Bridge - the High Road and the Low Road

The High Road and the Low Road: a striking view of the Tower Bridge and its useless superway. The high level footway of Tower Bridge, London, was constructed with the object of enabling foot passengers to continue across the bridge when the drawbridge was raised, but experience showed no time was saved by using it. People who waited for the drawbridge to close got there just as soon and with less trouble, and so it was closed to the public after quite a short run.
1913

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Hotel Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, Florida, USA in the 1890's. From the book The United States of America - One Hundred Albertype Illustrations From Recent Negatives of the Most Noted Scenes of Our Country, published 1893; St. Augustine, Florida, United States of America

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Grand Prismatic Spring, one of the largest hot springs in the United States, YNP, Wyoming, USA

Grand Prismatic Spring is one of the largest and most beautiful examples of a common hydrothermal feature in Yellowstone National Park and one of the largest hot springs in the United States. The prismatic, colorful features come from several sources; the deep blue in the center is the clear super-heated water circulating up from the subterranean heat source and shows a pair of convection currents, like a pair of eyes. As the water cools at the edges of the pool and on the sinter terraces, bacteria and algae produce the rainbow of colors. This hot spring was specifically mentioned in Osborne Russell's Journal of a Trapper, by the name of Boiling Lake, which apparently was a name given to it by Rocky Mountain fur trappers in the 1830s, in Yellowstone National Park; Wyoming, United States of America

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