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TITLE:
Hortense Bridge, Spanning Chalk Creek on State Highway 162, Nathrop (historical) vicinity, Chaffee County, CO
CALL NUMBER:
HAER COLO,8-NATH.V,1-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 10 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 10 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad
Palmer , Wi
Evans , Gov. John
Loveland, W. A. H.
New Jersey Iron Works
Colorado Central Railroad
NOTE:
Survey number HAER CO-49
Building/structure dates: 1880 initial construction
Significance: The bridge is technologically significant as a rare existing example of a very common early bridge, a timber/iron Queenpost truss. It is historically significant as an early span associated with an important Colorado railroad.
SUBJECTS:
COLORADO--Chaffee County--Nathrop (historical) vicinity
civil engineering
moving of structures
railroad bridges
OTHER TITLE:
Chalk Creek Bridge
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.co0213
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. OVERALL VIEW OF BRIDGE FROM STATE HIGHWAY 162, LOOKING EAST
2. OVERALL VIEW OF BRIDGE FROM STATE HIGHWAY 162, LOOKING WEST
3. VIEW OF WEST PORTAL, LOOKING EAST
4. VIEW OF EAST PORTAL AND NORTH WEB, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
5. VIEW OF NORTH WEB, LOOKING NORTH
6. DETAIL VIEW OF NORTH WEB, SNOWING CONNECTION, LOOKING NORTH
7. DETAIL VIEW OF SOUTH WEB, SHOWING EYEBAR, BRACING AND CONNECTION, LOOKING NORTHWEST
8. DETAIL VIEW OF DECK FROM BELOW, LOOKING NORTHWEST
9. DETAIL VIEW OF PARTIAL SOUTH WEB AND WEST ABUTMENT, LOOKING WEST
10. DETAIL VIEW OF PARTIAL NORTH WEB AND NORTHEAST ABUTMENT, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
CONTROL #:
CO0213
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