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TITLE:
Nizina Bridge, Mile 8, Nizina Road, McCarthy vicinity, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK
CALL NUMBER:
HAER AK,20-MCAR.V,2-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 6 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 1 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Alaska Road Commission
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Faulkner, Sandra M., historian
NOTE:
Survey number HAER AK-14
Building/structure dates: 1920 initial construction
Building/structure dates: 1935 subsequent work
Significance: Part of the McCarthy-Nizina Road, with the purpose of providing a route to the Dan Creek, May Creek and Chititu mines, the Bridge was an expensive thorn in the side of the Alaska Road Commission and a point of controversy for local residents as the Nizina River's ever shifting main channel undermined the Bridge resulting in high maintenance costs.
SUBJECTS:
ALASKA--Valdez-Cordova Census Area--McCarthy vicinity
civil engineering
transportation
bridge construction
OTHER TITLE:
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve
COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ak0199
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. AERIAL, LOOKING NORTHWEST
2. NEAR GROUND LEVEL VIEW, LOOKING NORTH
3. WOODEN SPAN AT EAST END
4. WOODEN SPAN AT WEST END
5. WOODEN SPAN, LOOKING NORTH
6. SUBDIVIDED SPAN
CONTROL #:
AK0199
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