1920+2002 Franklin Street Bridge is raised for the Cleveland Cliffs ship

(Bridge Hunter;  Historic Bridges; HAER; Chicago Loop Bridges; Satellite)

FP Martinez posted
[It was white when it was built. This shows years of coal soot.]
"When the original railings, ornate bridgetender buildings, and gracefully curved pony trusses are taken into account it is quite easy to argue that the Franklin Street Bridge is among the most beautiful of Chicago's bridges." [Historic Bridges]
Historic Chicago posted
Chicago - Merchandise Mart (1951)

Looking SW

Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in November 2015 via Bridge Hunter

[Note the building construction that they also caught.]

Steve Farr, Jul 2017

1920 Annual Report of the Chicago Public Works Department via ChicagoLoopBridges

MWRD posted on Jan 6, 2023
A view downstream showing the south span of a bridge at Franklin Street over the Chicago River on August 21, 1919.

MWRD posted
 A downstream view of the Franklin Street bridge over the Chicago River on July 17, 1923.
[I avoid terms like "downstream" on the Chicago River because I can't decide if I should use the original flow or the current flow. It appears that MWRD uses the original flow.]

William Lafferty commented on the above post
Another great Chicago maritime image. The small vessel on the left, American Eagle, was built by "Doc" Heath at Saugatuck, Michigan, in 1903 for Phil Kegel, well-known Chicago fisherman and excursion boat operator, still its owner when this photograph was taken. American Eagle primarily ran round trips between Lincoln Park and Municipal Pier. Sold to William Zieck of Chicago in 1925, it was abandoned on the North Branch in 1931. Beyond the bridge can be seen the steamer Petoskey, one of the longest running passenger steamers in Chicago history, launched 20 April 1888 at Manitowoc by Burger & Burger. From 1901 to 1927 it ran for the Chicago & South Haven Steamship Company between those two cities. While sitting at Sturgeon Bay awaiting to be cut down to a barge, it burned a total loss at the yard of the Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding & Drydock Company along with two other vessels in a major conflagration, 3 December 1935. Here is the Petoskey being rebuilt at Sturgeon Bay in the summer of 1927: