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Civil Engineering Works Photograph Collection
Item
Identifier: SC Photo-0020
Abstract
The collection of photographs illustrate various types of civil engineering works including the Whipple through truss railroad bridge, Pennsylvania through truss bridge, suspension bridges, cantilever bridges, reinforced concrete arch bridges and buttress dams. Among the bridge photographs are included the Brooklyn Bridge, the Firth of Forth Bridge, the Tay Bridge and Niagara Falls “Honeymoon” Bridge collapses, the Pecos River railroad trestle bridge and the “Luten Design” reinforced...
Dates:
1879-1984; Majority of material found within 1879-1984
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photograph of Harlem Bridge over Harlem River at Fourth Avenue, New York, Circa 1867-1871
Item
Identifier: SC photo-0021
Abstract
John Reid, the acknowledged photographer of this picture, was in his lifetime known as a pioneer photographer of the “Iron Horse” (steam locomotives). He introduced the convention of taking the photographs “from a position just ahead of the smoke box” in the late 1850s. This angle is apparent in this photograph as the 4-4-0 steam locomotive positioned on the Harlem Bridge. The bridge is an example of a Post box-truss type developed by Simeon S. Post in 1863. Based on information printed...
Dates:
Circa 1867-1871
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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- Saskatchewan River Bridge, Saskatoon, Canada 1
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- Tellicoe River Bridge, Vonore, Tennessee 1
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- Ambursen, Nils Frederick, 1876-1953 1
- Champion Bridge Company 1
- Gardner, David I. 1
- Harrington, Howard & Ash Engineers 1
- Luten Bridge Company 1
- Luten Engineering Company 1
- Luten, Daniel B., 1869-1946 1
- National Bridge Company 1
- New York and New Haven Railroad Company 1
- New-York and Harlem Rail Road Company 1
- Phoenix Bridge Company 1
- Post, Simeon S., 1805-1872 1
- Reid, John, 1835-1911 1
- Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works 1
- Sale, Madison 1
- Shelton, Thomas J. 1
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company 1
- Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company 1
- The Watson Manufacturing Company Builders 1
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