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Market Street Bridge/Kittanning Bridge 1932
Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0019
Abstract
The collection shows a series of construction photos of a Pennsylvania Department of Highways Parker Through Truss Bridge built by the McClintic-Marshall Company. The bridge is known as the Market Street Bridge or the Kittanning Bridge and carries Business US 422 over the Allegheny River from Kittanning, PA to Applewold on the opposite bank. Also very cursorily are a few photos and brief description of the Brewery Bridge in Latrobe, PA.
Dates:
1931-1932; Majority of material found within 1931-1932, 1958
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photo Album of Bridges by G. W. Philips
Collection — Volume: PHOTO0018.01
Identifier: SC Photo-0018
Abstract
The album contains a collection of photographs of six Pennsylvania bridges and several railroad works possibly inspected by G. W. Philips in a period from 1900 to 1930. Perhaps the most well-known Pennsylvania bridge is the multi concrete arch Hyner Bridge over the Susquehanna River near Renovo, Pennsylvania. The Hell Gate Bridge over the East River in New York City is an anomaly among the construction photographs in the album as the only New York bridge. The album is an interesting...
Dates:
1900-1930; Majority of material found within 1900-1930
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections