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22 b&w photos
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5 data pages
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2 photo caption pages


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TITLE:
San Roque Canyon Bridge, State Highway 192, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, CA

CALL NUMBER:
HAER CAL,42-SANBA,15-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 22   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 4 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Grant, Ulysses Sumner
Davison, C. B.

NOTE:
Survey number HAER CA-17

Building/structure dates: 1931 initial construction

Significance: San Roque Canyon Bridge is significant because of the commitment to concrete prevalent in California, the plate girder arch, as a type, is relatively rare. There are only two known in the State at this time, and since the other is a through arch span, San Roque Canyon Bridge is the only known one of its type in California.

SUBJECTS:
CALIFORNIA--Santa Barbara County--Santa Barbara
civil engineering
steel girder bridges
steel arch bridges

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.ca1276

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. VIEW NORTHWEST, DOWNSTREAM SIDE File photo, Caltrans Office of Structures Maintenance, March, 1938. Photographer unknown. Photocopy of photograph.
2. VIEW EAST-NORTHEAST, DOWNSTREAM SIDE File photo, Caltrans Office of Structures Maintenance, May, 1967. Photographer unknown. Photocopy of photograph.
3. VIEW NORTHWEST, DOWNSTREAM SIDE Pile photo, Caltrans Office of Structures Maintenance November, 1954. Photographer unknown. Photocopy of photograph.
4. VIEW NORTHWEST, DOWNSTREAM SIDE
5. VIEW EAST-NORTHEAST, DOWNSTREAM SIDE
6. VIEW EAST ALONG DECK
7. VIEW SOUTHWEST, UPSTREAM SIDE
8. VIEW EAST OF UNDERSIDE FROM CENTER PIER
9. VIEW SOUTHEAST, UPSTREAM SIDE
10. DETAIL, WEST ABUTMENT
11. VIEW SOUTH, OVERVIEW OF BRIDGE AND SITE
12. VIEW EAST ALONG DECK CENTERLINE, PRIOR TO CANTILEVERING SIDEWALK ON DOWNSTREAM SIDE File photo, Caltrans Office of Strutures Maintenance, March 1938. Photographer unknown. Photocopy of photograph
13. VIEW WEST ALONG DECK AND CANTILEVERED PLANK SIDEWALK
14. VIEW WEST ALONG UNDERSIDE FROM EAST ABUTMENT
15. VIEW NORTH ALONG SAN ROQUE CREEK FROM CITY PARK
16. DETAIL, ABUTMENT AND SHOE, EAST END OF NORTH ARCH RIB
17. DETAIL, EAST ABUTMENT AND UNDERSIDE OF EAST APPROACH SPAN
18. DETAIL, CENTER PIER AND SHOE, UPSTREAM SIDE
19. AERIAL VIEW SOUTH (Lynn Harrison, Caltrans photographer)
20. AERIAL VIEW NORTH (Lynn Harrison, Caltrans photographer)
21. AERIAL VIEW NORTH (Lynn Harrison, Caltrans photographer)
22. DETAIL, WEST ABUTMENT AND SHOE, WEST ARCH, UPSTREAM SIDE File photo, Caltrans Office of Structures Maintenance, August, 1953. Photographer unknown. Photocopy of photograph.

CONTROL #:
CA1276

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