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8 b&w photos
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4 data pages
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TITLE:
Indian Ford Bridge, London Mills vicinity, Fulton County, IL

CALL NUMBER:
HAER ILL,29-LONMI.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 8   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 3 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Illinois Steel Bridge Company

NOTE:
Survey number HAER IL-13

Building/structure dates: 1917 initial construction

Significance: The Indian Ford Bridge is one of nine remaining steel through truss bridges constructed approximately between 1880 and 1917 in Fulton County on County and Township roads over the Spoon River. The bridge exhibits components of the early development of riveted Pratt Truss bridges constructed in Illinois.

SUBJECTS:
ILLINOIS--Fulton County--London Mills vicinity
civil engineering
transportation engineering
vehicular 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.il0446

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. VIEW FACING SOUTHWEST
2. VIEW FACING SOUTHWEST
3. VIEW FACING WEST
4. VIEW FACING EAST
5. DETAIL OF CONCRETE SPAN - VIEW FACING WEST
6. BOTTOM OF TRAFFIC DECK - VIEW FACING NORTHEAST
7. DETAIL OF CONCRETE THROUGH GIRDER - VIEW FACING SOUTHEAST
8. DETAIL OF TOP CHORD AND TOP LATERAL BRACING - VIEW FACING SOUTH

CONTROL #:
IL0446

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