Bridges
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
American Span, Thousand Islands International Bridge, Thousand Islands, N.Y., 1945?
Item — Item 70a/b-NY
Dates:
1945?
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
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
Copy of Engineers Private Journal [on] Harlem Bridge
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0142
Abstract
This journal appears to be a unique record
of daily on site observations and construction processes of the building of a second Harlem
River bridge at the site of Third Avenue, County of New York (Manhattan). It contains copied
documents such as the New York State Legislature’s document Chapter 774 dated April 17, 1857
authorizing the building of a new bridge at the site, as well as the design requirements for
the new bridge, removal of the previous bridge and the official appointment and...
Dates:
1857-1861
David E. Guise Collection on Bridges
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0345
Abstract
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Dates:
1880-2000
Herman Haupt Civil War Military Transportation Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0001
Abstract
This collection contains an incomplete series of photographs taken by Andrew J. Russell under the direction of Herman Haupt. These photographs capture different methods for the construction and deconstruction of bridges and other engineering projects implemented during the Civil War to aid military transportation. These photographs are described in detail by Haupt in the accompanying text volume. A series of images, many of which appear to be illustrations of scenes depicted in the...
Dates:
1863
Negatives and Photographs of Fritz Engineering Laboratory Tests and Events
Collection
Identifier: SC Photo 0013
Dates:
1900-1961
Robert Blum Olney Bridge Design Class Notebook
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0226
Abstract
This manuscript contains three bridge
design class exercises indicating the instructional process to train engineering
students. Specific step-by-step instruction in designing for various railroad bridge
spans, building material specifications, structural loads and stresses to be
considered as presented in the professor’s lecture. The complete process of
calculating the design with comparisons of different conditions, as well as material
available, costs incurred of every aspect of the...
Dates:
1891 - 1892