BridgeMuseum

The Sydney Harbour Bridge rises above Dawes Point with a massive steel arch that supports eight lanes of traffic and two rail lines. Engineers finished this heavy construction in nineteen thirty-two during the depths of the Great Depression. While thousands of workers labored on the structure, the government used the project to provide jobs for men who had been unemployed for years. A local foreman once described the steel as a skeleton that brought the city back to work during its darkest decade.