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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.
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Found in:
Lehigh University Grant Projects
Photographs of Construction of Bronx Public Works
Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0005
Abstract
The Borough of the Bronx of the City of New York is bound on the south and southwest by the Harlem River, on the west by the Hudson River, on the north by Westchester County and the east by the most westerly reaches of the Long Island Sound and on the south by the East River. In 1898 the Bronx, formerly a part of Westchester County, was incorporated into the City of New York. It is the only New York City borough on the mainland. In 1848, a physical connection was made between the island...
Dates:
1893-1935
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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- Alvsborg Bridge (Gothenburg, Sweden) 1
- Ambassador International Bridge (Detroit, Michigan) 1
- Angus L. Macdonald Bridge (Halifax - Dartmouth) 1
- Bidwell Bar Bridge (Oroville, California) 1
- Blaw-Knox Pipe Line Bridge (Charleston, Tennessee) 1
- Blueprints 1
- Boulder Dam Bridge (AZ) [Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge] 1
- Bridges 1
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) 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
- Cantilever bridges 1
- Chains 1
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge (Maryland) 1
- Chester Bridge (Chester, Illinois) 1
- Civil engineering 1
- Civil engineers 1
- Columns 1
- Composite materials -- Testing 1
- Concrete 1
- Correspondence 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
- Dodge Street (Lincoln Highway) Bridge (Omaha, NE) 1
- East Boston Bridge 1
- East Fredericktown Vesta Coal Preparation Plant 1
- Florianopolis Bridge (Hercilio Luz Bridge, Brazil) 1
- Forth Road Bridge (Scotland) 1
- Frames 1
- Fremont Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) 1
- Friction 1
- Garden State Parkway (New Jersey) 1
- Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.) 1
- Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
- Grand Mère Suspension Bridge (Quebec, Canada) 1
- Hartford Bridge. 1
- Henry Hudson Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Hutsonville Bridge (Hutsonville, Illinois) 1
- Karnali Bridge (Nepal) 1
- Mackinac Bridge (Mich.) 1
- Maldonado Bridge (Uruguay) 1
- Martin-Pena Canal (Puerto Rico) 1
- Materials--Testing 1
- Mount Hope Bridge (Bristol, Rhode Island) 1
- New York State Thruway (New York) 1
- Niagara River Bridge 1
- Notebooks 1
- Panama Bridge (Panama) [Centennial Bridge?] 1
- Photographs 1
- Plates (Engineering) 1
- Railroad bridges 1
- Reinforced concrete 1
- Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct/Bridge (Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania) 1
- Sciotoville Railroad Bridge (Sciotoville, Ohio) 1
- Severn Bridge (England : Railroad bridge) 1
- St. John’s Bridge (Portland, Oregon) 1
- Stability 1
- Steel 1
- Storebaelt Bridge (Denmark) 1
- Stresses and strains 1
- Suspension bridges 1
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma, Wash. : 1940) 1
- Thousand Islands Bridge (N.Y. and Ont.) 1
- Torsion 1
- Towers 1
- Trusses 1
- Verona Island Bridge (ME) [Penobscot Narrows Bridge] 1
- Walt Whitman Bridge (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 1
- Welds 1
- Williamsburg Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Wires 1 ∧ less
- Names
- George C., Wheeler 1
- Rothschild, Albert 1
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