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12 b&w photos
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13 data pages
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1 photo caption pages
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TITLE:
Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning Skunk River, Denmark vicinity, Lee County, IA

CALL NUMBER:
HAER IOWA,56-DEN.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 12   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 12 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
Color Transparencies: 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER IA-61

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N233).

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 98000533

Significance: The main span of this bridge may be the longest pinned truss remaining in Iowa and serves as a well-preserved example of a Pratt truss subtype - the Pennsylvania truss. The bridge is significant for its role in the development of regional transportation in the Lee and Des Moines county area.

SUBJECTS:
IOWA--Lee County--Denmark vicinity

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.ia0437

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. ELEVATION FROM WEST
2. BARREL VIEW FROM NORTH, MID SPAN
3. BARREL VIEW FROM NORTH
4. 3/4 VIEW OF SMALL TRUSS, FROM NORTHWEST
5. 3/4 VIEW OF SMALL TRUSS, FROM SOUTHWEST
6. DETAIL OF BOTTOM CONNECTIONS, FROM SOUTHWEST
7. DETAIL OF UPPER CONNECTIONS, FROM NORTH
8. DETAIL OF BUILDERS PLATE, FROM NORTH
9. DETAIL OF CONNECTIONS AT MIDDLE OF TRUSS, FROM SOUTHWEST
10. DETAIL OF PEDESTRIAN RAIL CONNECTIONS, FROM SOUTHWEST
11. BEARING PLATES OF BOTH TRUSSES, FROM WEST
12. UNDERSIDE, FROM NORTH
ELEVATION FROM WEST

CONTROL #:
IA0437

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