North Halsted Street Canal Bridge, Spanning North Branch Canal at North Halsted Stree, Chicago, Cook County, IL

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7 b&w photos
26 data pages
1 photo caption pages

TITLE:
North Halsted Street Canal Bridge, Spanning North Branch Canal at North Halsted Stree, Chicago, Cook County, IL

CALL NUMBER:
HAER ILL, 16-CHIG, 148-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 7 (4 x 5 in. and 5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 25 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER IL-160

Building/structure dates: 1908

Significance: Spanning the North Branch Canal at North Halsted Street in Chicago, the North Halsted Street Bridge is a double-leaf, fixed-trunnion bascule with a rigidly attached, below-deck counterweight. Completed in 1908, the bridge embodies a design developed during 1899-1900 by the bridge division of the Chicago Department of Public Works, under the supervision of Chicago City Engineer John E. Ericson. The North Halsted Street Bridge was the eighth bascule of its type erected by the city. Its construction marked the end of the initial development period of the "Chicago Type Bascule." Subsequent bascules designed by the city introduced a number of technological refinements and displayed an aesthetic concern that was totally lacking in the North Halsted Street Bridge and its predecessors.

SUBJECTS:
ILLINOIS--Cook County--Chicago
bascule 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.il0840

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. LOOKING NE TOWARD CABRINI GREEN HOUSING PROJECT, NORTH HALSTED STREET AT RIGHT, WEST DIVISION STREET AT LEFT; GOOSE ISLAND AT BOTTOM OF FRAME.
2. SOUTH LEAF PORTAL OF OVERHEAD, LOOKING NORTH.
3. PERSPECTIVE LOOKING TOWARD CABRINI GREEN (ON RIGHT).
4. LOOKING SW AT NORTH LEAF PORTAL.
5. LOOKING SW AT NORTH LEAF OVERHEAD OF BRACING.
6. LOOKING NE AT SOUTH LEAF PORTAL.
7. PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF NORTH HALSTED STREET BRIDGE LOOKING S.E. FROM SOUTH DECK OF WEST DIVISION CANAL BRIDGE.

CONTROL #:
IL0840

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