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Box 0117.01

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6 ½” x 9” black and white glossy photograph pasted on 8 ½” x 11”

 File — Box: 0117.01, Folder: 26.06
Scope and Contents

6 ½” x 9” black and white glossy photograph pasted on 8 ½” x 11” sheet of paper (WJE written on lower right corner). (typed caption) Schwandbach Bridge (close-up view). The inner edge of the slab-arch follows the curve of the highway.

Dates: 1900 - 1982

4” x 5 ½” black and white glossy photograph pasted on 8 ½” x 11”

 File — Box: 0117.01, Folder: 26.07
Scope and Contents 4” x 5 ½” black and white glossy photograph pasted on 8 ½” x 11” sheet of paper (WJE written upper and lower left corners), (typed caption) Val Tschiel Bridge, Canton Grisons, Switzerland. 1925-26, Robert Maillart, engineer. Stiffened slab-arch of 142-foot span. Here for the first time Maillart used his extremely thin barrel vault, stiffened by the deep rigid girder formed by parapets and road-slab. The semicircular openings along the parapet and the incongruous masonry abutments were...
Dates: 1900 - 1982

6 ½” x 9” black and white glossy photograph pasted on 8 ½” x 11”

 File — Box: 0117.01, Folder: 26.08
Scope and Contents

6 ½” x 9” black and white glossy photograph pasted on 8 ½” x 11” sheet of paper (WJE written upper and lower right corners). (typed caption) Chatelard Aqueduct, Canton Valais, Switzerland, 1925. Robert Maillart, engineer. 100-foot span. The structure is hybrid, for the arch springs conventionally from its abutments, then merges with the box girder that carries the water. This fusion of two seemingly incompatible forms is curiously successful.

Dates: 1900 - 1982

6 ½” x 9” black and white glossy photograph pasted on 8 ½” x 11”

 File — Box: 0117.01, Folder: 26.09
Scope and Contents

6 ½” x 9” black and white glossy photograph pasted on 8 ½” x 11” sheet of paper (WJE written in upper right corner), (typed caption) Bridge over the Thur. At once bold and delicate, the lither arch looks very much at ease in the friendly, man-scaled landscape.

Dates: 1900 - 1982

4” x 6” black and white glossy photograph pasted on 8 ½” x 11”

 File — Box: 0117.01, Folder: 26.10
Scope and Contents 4” x 6” black and white glossy photograph pasted on 8 ½” x 11” sheet of paper (typed caption) Bridge over the Thur, near Felsegg, Canton St. Gall, Switzerland. 1933. Robert Maillart, engineer. Two parallel three-hinged arches of 226-foot span. No bridge of Millart’s (i.e. Maillart) is more assertive of strength than this light span over the Thur. Characteristic of his later work are the powerful concisely defined, highly differtiated (i.e. differentiated) shapes – the pointed arch, the...
Dates: 1900 - 1982

Photographs: Quebec Bridge Failure – 1, 10 mylar sleeves containing 21 8 x 10 inch black and white glossy prints

 Series — Box: 0117.01, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of one archival box with 28 folders containing assorted photographs, letters, newspaper articles and publications.

Dates: 1900 - 1982

Starting the erection of the North Shore cantilever arm, showing the supporting platform in place carrying the first sections of the lower chord.

 Series — Box: 0117.01, Folder: 27.01
Scope and Contents

Starting the erection of the North Shore cantilever arm, showing the supporting platform in place carrying the first sections of the lower chord. 264 – June 18-15 (photo shows massive steel girders and beams supported on a masonry pier, water and low hills in background)

Dates: 1900 - 1982

(Two smaller prints of previous photo printed on single sheet)

 File — Box: 0117.01, Folder: 27.01, Item: 01
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Starting the erection of the North Shore cantilever arm, showing the supporting platform in place carrying the first sections of the lower chord. 264 – June 18-15 (photo shows massive steel girders and beams supported on a masonry pier, water and low hills in background)

Dates: 1900 - 1982

Erecting the third panel of the Cantilever Arm

 Series — Box: 0117.01, Folder: 27.02
Scope and Contents

Erecting the third panel of the Cantilever Arm (photo shows massive steel superstructure supported on two masonry piers on a rocky surface, in foggy distance is a horizon of low hills)

Dates: 1900 - 1982

(Two smaller prints of previous photo printed on single sheet)

 File — Box: 0117.01, Folder: 27.02, Item: 01
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Erecting the third panel of the Cantilever Arm (photo shows massive steel superstructure supported on two masonry piers on a rocky surface, in foggy distance is a horizon of low hills)

Dates: 1900 - 1982