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How London Bridge crossed an ocean to reach Arizona

History & Nostalgia

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Go Lake Havasu: The London Bridge. Official visitor bureau history covering the 1968 purchase, transport route and October 10, 1971 rededication. Sundt: London Bridge. Original contractor account of the reinforced-concrete structure, historic cladding, soffit-fill construction and channel excavation. Historic American Engineering Record, London Bridge, HAER AZ-57, Katherine Larson, May 1999. NPS historical record held by the Library of Congress; original design, 1831 opening and later alterations.

These credits cover only the two original photographs selected for this website article: S. Winkvist’s May 20, 2011 aerial view, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0, and Charles O’Rear’s May 1972 EPA DOCUMERICA photograph, National Archives 548816, identified as a public-domain official-duty EPA work. OddityDrop has not edited either source image. The archival film border remains in the 1972 image. This article does not use the text-overlaid Instagram slides. These credits do not replace the separate credits and licenses required for photographs used in that Instagram carousel. Original OddityDrop article text is separate from the photographs’ public-domain status.

THE IMAGES

An aerial view of London Bridge crossing a blue-green channel in Lake Havasu City, surrounded by roads, waterfront buildings and desert development.
IMAGE 01

An aerial view of London Bridge crossing a blue-green channel in Lake Havasu City, surrounded by roads, waterfront buildings and desert development.

Creator / photographer
S. Winkvist
Rights holder
S. Winkvist; dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0
License / usage
CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
Changes
Original source photograph, unchanged by OddityDrop. Responsive website display sizing only. No generated or edited image elements.
Original asset · Wikimedia Commons
An archival view of London Bridge’s stone arches in Lake Havasu City, with flowers in the foreground and a black car beside the channel.
IMAGE 02

An archival view of London Bridge’s stone arches in Lake Havasu City, with flowers in the foreground and a black car beside the channel.

Creator / photographer
Charles O’Rear / Environmental Protection Agency / National Archives
Rights holder
Public-domain U.S. government work; EPA / National Archives
License / usage
Public domain: official-duty Environmental Protection Agency photograph
Changes
Original archival source file, unchanged by OddityDrop, including its original film border. Responsive website display sizing only. No generated or edited image elements.
Original asset · Wikimedia Commons

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