Antique Steel Architectural Plaque/Sign ~ American Bridge Co. of New York, 1912

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Antique Steel Architectural Plaque/Sign ~ American Bridge Co. of New York, 1912:
$167.00

For sale is this heavy steel plaque, reading \"AMERICAN BRIDGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK - U.S.A. - 1912.\" Measures 13¾\" x 10¼\" and about⅝\" thick. It is currently painted black over what looks like several older coats of paint. It is in good condition, with a very slight amount of rust.
A bit of history:
The American Bridge Company was founded in April 1900, through the JP Morgan-led consolidation of 28 of the largest U.S. steel fabricators and constructors. The company’s roots extend to the late 1860s, when one of the consolidated firms, Keystone Bridge Company, built the Eads Bridge, the first steel bridge over the Mississippi River, at St. Louis and still in use. In 1902, the company became a subsidiary of United States Steel as part of the Steel Trust consolidation.
The company pioneered the use of steel as a construction material; developing the means and methods for fabrication and construction that allowed it to be widely used in buildings, bridges, vessels, and other plate applications. As a result, and due to its deep financial resources, American Bridge has performed work across the nation and the world since its founding.
Notable projects include:
Bridges:

Silver Bridge, Point Pleasant, West Virginia (1927)
San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, Oakland, California (1936)
Mackinac Bridge, Mackinac Straits, Michigan (1957)
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, New York Harbor (1964)
Macarthur Causeway, Miami, Florida (1997)
Built the longest concrete segmental cable stay bridge in the United States:

Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Tampa Bay, Florida (1986)

Built the longest suspension bridge in South America, and one of the longest in Europe:

25th of April Bridge, Lisbon, Portugal (1966)
Orinoco Bridge, Venezuela (1967)

Built the world\'s longest arch bridge on three occasions:

Hell Gate Bridge, New York City (1916): 298 meters (978’)
Bayonne Bridge, Staten Island-New Jersey (1932): 504 meters (1,652’)
New River Gorge Bridge, West Virginia (1977): 518 meters, (1,700’)

Built the world’s longest self-supporting continuous truss bridge:

Astoria Bridge, Oregon, 1966, 376 meters the world’s tallest building on numerous occasions:

Woolworth Building, New York City (1913):241 meters (792’)
Chrysler Building, New York City(1931):319 meters (1,046’)
Empire State Building, New York City(1932):381 meters (1,250’)
Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower), Chicago (1974): 443 meters (1,454’)

Built many other well-known buildings:

Flatiron Building, New York City (1902)
U.S. Steel Tower (1970)
Aon Center (formerly Standard Oil), Chicago
Columbia Seafirst Center, Seattle
John Hancock Center, Chicago (and in Boston)

Built the world’s largest building by volume twice:

Vehicle Assembly Building, Kennedy Space Center (1964)
Boeing 747 Assembly Building, Everett, Washington (1974)

Built two of the most notable domed stadium structures in the world:

Houston Astrodome (1964)
Louisiana Superdome (1974)