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An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. The focus is on the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, a span set to open approximately one month after the date of this photograph
An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. The focus is on the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, a span set to open approximately one month after the date of this photograph
An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. The focus is on a tiny island in the middle of South Mill Pond, separating two Portsmouth neighborhoods
An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. The focus is on the Piscataqua River Bridge, a through arch bridge that crosses the Piscataqua River, connecting Portsmouth with Kittery, Maine
An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. Portsmouth, to the left in this view, connects via the Memorial lift bridge to Badger's Island, which is in Maine waters; that island, in turn connects to Kittery, the southernmost point of mainland Maine
An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. The focus is on small islands in the Piscataqua River, with the town of New Castle (also in New Hampshire) in the distance. Portsmouth also lies directly across another stretch of the river from Kittery, the southernmost point of the state of Maine
An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state
An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state
An October 2017 aerial view of a portion of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state
An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. The focus is on the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, a span set to open approximately one month after the date of this photograph
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The bridge replaces a lift bridge of the same name, carrying the U.S. Highway 1 Bypass over the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine. Opened in 1940, the first Long Bridge was a double-deck truss bridge with the road deck above and a railroad bed below. When not in use, the rail span lifted up and retracted south atop its own tracks inside the trusswork.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-10).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)