McKinley Bridge

Title	:	Postcard: Illinois Traction System's McKinley Bridge, St. Louis, MO.
Date	:	Undated
Description	:	The card states the bridge is in Granite City, Illinois, but the bridge actually spans the Mississippi River between St. Louis, MO and Venice, Illinois. The veiw is very nice, because it shows the Union Electric power plant in Venice next to the bridge. The plant was served by a spur track from the bridge. The spur was elevated at the same level as the bridge. The card is number 3 in a series of scenes of St. Louis. The card number is 21074-N, and it was published by E. C. Kropp of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a major postcard publisher. The card has a white border indicating it was published between 1918 and about 1930. (Skip Gatermann Collection.)