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Blair Birdsall Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0175
Abstract

This collection contains the technical and professional documents of consulting engineer Blair Birdsall. Most of the collection are documents pertaining to the multitude of bridges he worked on, including the Golden Gate, Chesapeake Bay, and Brooklyn Bridges, as a consulting engineer or as a design engineer. The collection spans from 1900 to 2002 covering his entire career and also early Steinman Boynton Gronquist & Birdsall and John A. Roebling Sons Engineering companies.

Dates: Inclusive Dates

Edward George Uhl Documents

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0268
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, personal memorabilia, audio tape, CD and photographs.

Dates: 1925 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1941 - 2010

Girdler Family Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0247
Abstract An extensive collection of correspondence, information and genealogical searches made by current family members to trace ancestors into the Seventeenth Century when it is believed the first of the Girdlers came to the American colonies. The early ancestors settled in Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts and were involved in the mariner trade as sailors, masters and captains of merchant ships. Perhaps the most famous was Lewis Girdler, master of the “Betsy” who was a licensed privateer...
Dates: 1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915

Photographs and blueprints of Washington State Highway Department: Bridges 1920 to 1931

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0291
Abstract

Photographs and blueprints of highway bridges built in the 1920s as part of the State of Washington’s Public Works Department post World War I building program. Also some photographs of bridges built in California, apparently designed by Charles Andrew who was bridge engineer for California State Highway Department as well as Washington State Highway Department and Oregon.

Dates: 1920-01-01 - 1931-12-31

Willis Appleford Slater Papers, 1910-1937

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0100
Dates: Inclusive Dates

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Aerospace engineering 1
Aerospace engineers 1
Alabama--Huntsville 1
Alvsborg Bridge (Gothenburg, Sweden) 1
Ambassador International Bridge (Detroit, Michigan) 1
Angus L. Macdonald Bridge (Halifax - Dartmouth) 1
Arch Dams -- testing 1
Baltimore, Maryland 1
Berlin, Germany 1
Bidwell Bar Bridge (Oroville, California) 1
Blaw-Knox Pipe Line Bridge (Charleston, Tennessee) 1
Boston, Massachusetts 1
Boulder Dam Bridge (AZ) [Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge] 1
Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel (NY) [Hugh L. Carey Tunnel] 1
Bucksport Suspension Bridge (Bucksport, Maine) [Waldo-Hancock Bridge?] 1
Buffalo (N.Y.) 1
Cadiz, Spain 1
California 1
California--San Diego 1
Cantilever bridges 1
Cement -- testing 1
Chains 1
Chesapeake Bay Bridge (Maryland) 1
Chester Bridge (Chester, Illinois) 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Civil engineering 1
Columns 1
Composite materials -- Testing 1
Concrete 1
Concrete slabs -- Design and Construction 1
Concrete slabs -- testing 1
Covington-Cincinnati Bridge (Cincinnati, Ohio) [John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge] 1
Daule River Bridge (Guayaquil, Ecuador) [National Unity Bridge] 1
Deer Isle Bridge (Me.) 1
Delaware Memorial Bridge (New Castle, Delaware) 1
Delaware River Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Detroit (Mich.) 1
Dodge Street (Lincoln Highway) Bridge (Omaha, NE) 1
East Boston Bridge 1
East Fredericktown Vesta Coal Preparation Plant 1
Elwha River 1
Everett Marysville Bridges 1
Ferndale Bridge 1
Florianopolis Bridge (Hercilio Luz Bridge, Brazil) 1
Florida--Orlando 1
Forth Road Bridge (Scotland) 1
Frames 1
Fremont Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) 1
Friction 1
Gages Slough Bridge 1
Garden State Parkway (New Jersey) 1
Genealogy 1
George Washington Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Glasgow, Scotland 1
Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.) 1
Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Grand Mère Suspension Bridge (Quebec, Canada) 1
Hamma Hamma River, Eldon, Mason County, Washington 1
Harrisburg (Pa.) 1
Hartford Bridge. 1
Henry Hudson Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Hoquiam River Bridge 1
Hutsonville Bridge (Hutsonville, Illinois) 1
Jersey City (N.J.) 1
Karnali Bridge (Nepal) 1
Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, Washington 1
London 1
Mackinac Bridge (Mich.) 1
Maldonado Bridge (Uruguay) 1
Manette Bridge 1
Marblehead, Massachusetts 1
Mariners 1
Martin-Pena Canal (Puerto Rico) 1
Materials--Testing 1
Morse Creek Bridge 1
Mount Hope Bridge (Bristol, Rhode Island) 1
Muncy (Pa.) 1
New York (N.Y.) 1
New York State Thruway (New York) 1
Niagara River Bridge 1
North Tonawanda (New York) 1
Olympic Highway 1
Olympic Peninsula 1
Ordinance engineer 1
Pacific Highway 1
Panama Bridge (Panama) [Centennial Bridge?] 1
Park Avenue Viaduct (New York, N.Y.) 1
Plates (Engineering) 1
Portland Vancouver Bridge 1
Puyallup Bridge 1
Railroad bridges 1
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Dixey, Richard W., 1809-1860 1
Dixey, Robert Hooper 1
Edmund, Kimball 1
Fisher, Nathaniel, 1742-1812 1
Fritz Engineering Laboratory 1