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Daredevil photographer appreciates Trenton’s Roebling-made components

By David Karas/The Times
on November 11, 2013 at 8:03 AM, updated November 11, 2013 at 8:12 AM

FLORENCE — The walls of the Roebling Museum contain photos of bridges that were hung with cable produced at the former Roebling steel mills here, and the photos were taken by a daredevil photographer, Dave Frieder, who clambered to the soaring tops of many Roebling bridges to get his shots.

There are other items in the collection donated by Frieder, such as Roebling cable that formerly helped suspend the Manhattan and Verrazano-Narrows bridges, and a giant wire rope socket weighing a few hundred pounds.

Frieder’s fascination for all things Roebling has enriched the museum’s collection and stems from the sheer ingenuity of the man they called John A. Roebling, who Frieder says perfected the art of spinning wire rope for bridge construction.

“He set the precedent for modern suspension bridge building,” Frieder says. “He was a genius for his time.”

Frieder’s photographs of New York’s bridges are well known, and it was his bug for photography that led him to develop an appreciation for the Roebling-made components that forever changed the way crossings would be buil