Box PHOTO0020.01

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Three Adams County (Ohio) Bridges (the following original photos are reproduced on pages 72 and 73 of the book Adams County by Stephen Kelley, Images of America series, Arcadia Publishing, 2010.)

Scope and Contents Bridge on Beasley Fork, on Brush Creek. Built 1888. Still standing Feb. 26-1984 (notation on matte framing the sepia photo) (15.5 x 20.5 cm sepia colored photo mounted on a damaged matte 25 x 30 cm. This image is reproduced on page 72 of book Adams County by Stephen Kelley with caption “Beasley Fork Bridge spans Ohio Brush Creek connecting Monroe and Brush Creek Townships. Photograph taken by David I. Gardner as bridge was completed.” This Beasley Fork Road Bridge (CR1P) carries County...

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(15.5 x 20.5 cm sepia colored photo mounted on a damaged matte 25 x 30 cm. The image is reproduced on page 73 of book Adams County, by Stephen Kelley with caption “Through-truss bridge late 19th Century. Camel-backed bridge being constructed over East Fork of Ohio Bush Creek near Lawshe in 1896 by Champion Bridge Co. Photo by David Gardner. Bridge removed by county 1983”)

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(15.5 x 20.5 cm sepia colored photo mounted on a damaged matte 25 x 30 cm. The image is reproduced on page 73 of the book Adams County, by Stephen Kelley with caption ”Camel-backed bridge finished. Photo by David I. Gardner.” On the metal truss is a metal plaque which States Champion Bridge Co. 1896 Wilmington (Ohio))

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Group of five photos of British Bridges: Firth of Forth Bridge and Firth of Tay Bridge. (These photos appear on www.google.com/search Tay-River-Bridge and www.search.com/reference/Tay-Rail-Bridge.

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The Forth Bridge (10.75 x 16. 5 cm carte-de-visite style Albumen print. Beneath the three span metal railroad bridge image are printed the specifications of the bridge. On the edge of the shore beneath the foremost span stand two women on an outcrop. On the back is a paper label: R. Grant & Son, Booksellers, 107 Princes Street Edinburgh with a penciled 3--). (The engineers for the bridge were B. Baker and John Fowler who also designed the second Tay Bridge).

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North British Railway locomotive 224 (18.5 x 29 cm albumen type print pasted on to a modern rust colored pebble surfaced matte 27 x 33 cm). The engine is somewhat battered but history states that this engine was pulling the train as it crashed into the Tay River when the bridge collapsed December 28, 1879 and later retrieved from the river and put back into service until 1925).

Scope and Contents Tay Bridge from North. (before accident) 894. J.V. (18.5 x29 cm albumen type print pasted onto a modern rust colored pebble surfaced matte 27 x 33 cm). (The first Tay Bridge was a lattice-girder iron railway bridge built to complete the Caledonian Railroad between Edinburgh and Dundee, Scotland. The bridge was single track railroad bridge designed by Thomas Bouch and at the time the longest bridge in the world [2.25 mi/3.5 km]. In 1879 the “high girder” section of the bridge [designed...

Scope and Contents Tay Bridge from S. (After Accident.) 1397. J.V. (on reverse is noted E. L. Roberts The Great Hickle Dedham – on www.zoopla.co.uk The Great Hickle is listed as a lodge on Coggeshall Road, Dedham, Colchester). (The photo shows the gap in the bridge where the “high girders” section was located.) (In 1887 a double track railroad bridge designed by B. Baker and John Fowler, the engineers responsible for the Firth of Forth railroad bridge, opened slightly to the west of the first Tay Bridge. ...

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(18.5 x 29 cm albumen type print pasted onto a modern rust colored pebble surfaced matte27 x 33 cm. The photo shows a section of the “high girders” section with battered railroad cars apparently after the section had been retrieved from the river.)