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


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TITLE:
Parker Bridge, Spanning Verdigris River 1.5 miles Southeast of Co, Coffeyville vicinity, Montgomery County, KS

CALL NUMBER:
HAER KANS,63-COF.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 22   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 10 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Wrought Iron Bridge Company
Jochims, Larry, historian

NOTE:
Survey number HAER KS-7

Building/structure dates: 1871 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1920 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1980 subsequent work

Significance: The combination bowstring/camelback bridge is a riveted steel high through truss and is one of only five camelbacks known to exist in the state. The bowstring pony truss is the only identified example of a Wrought Iron Bridge Company pony truss to exist in this State.

SUBJECTS:
KANSAS--Montgomery County--Coffeyville vicinity
transportation
bridge construction
steel truss 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.ks0143

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. SOUTHEAST SIDE OF BOWSTRING TRUSS AND CAMELBACK TRUSS
2. NORTHEAST END OF CAMELBACK TRUSS
3. SOUTHWEST END OF BOWSTRING TRUSS
4. FLOOR BEAM UPPER CHORD - BOWSTRING TRUSS
5. VERTICAL AND DIAGONAL BRACING, UPPER CHORD - BOWSTRING TRUSS
6. LOWER FLOOR BEAM, LOWER LATERALS - BOWSTRING TRUSS
7. BOWSTRING TRUSS AND CAMELBACK TRUSS AT PIER
8. PIER, LOWER CHORD, LATERAL BRACE, LATERAL GUSSET PLATE, FLOOR BEAM AND STRINGER - CAMELBACK TRUSS
9. CONNECTION AT NORTHEAST ABUTMENT - CAMELBACK TRUSS
10. NORTHEAST ABUTMENT, LOWER CHORD, AND LATERAL BRACE - CAMELBACK TRUSS
11. COUNTER DIAGONAL BRACES - CAMELBACK TRUSS
12. UPPER END CHORD, VERTICAL MEMBER, LATERAL STRUT, GUSSET PLATE AND END POST - CAMELBACK TRUSS
13. TOP LATERALS, UPPER CHORD, LATERAL STRUT, PORTALS - CAMELBACK TRUSS
14. UPPER CHORD, GUSSET PLATE, LATERAL STRUT, TOP LATERALS AND COUNTER DIAGONAL BRACES - CAMELBACK TRUSS
15. FLOOR BEAM, GUSSET PLATE, LOWER CHORD, VERTICAL POST, AND COUNTER DIAGONAL BRACES - CAMELBACK TRUSS
16. PIER BEARING, UPPER AND LOWER CHORD, FIRST VERTICAL MEMBER, PANEL NO. 1 DIAGONAL AND LATERAL BRACE - BOWSTRING TRUSS
17. THIRD VERTICAL MEMBER, UPPER AND LOWER CHORD, FLOOR BEAM AND COUNTER DIAGONAL BRACING - BOWSTRING TRUSS
18. THIRD VERTICAL MEMBER, UPPER CHORD CONNECTION - BOWSTRING TRUSS
19. THIRD VERTICAL MEMBER, LOWER CHORD CONNECTION - BOWSTRING TRUSS
20. FOURTH VERTICAL MEMBER, UPPER AND LOWER CHORD, FLOOR BEAM AND COUNTER DIAGONAL BRACING
21. FOURTH VERTICAL MEMBER, UPPER CHORD CONNECTION BOWSTRING TRUSS
22. FOURTH VERTICAL MEMBER, LOWER CHORD CONNECTION - BOWSTRING TRUSS

CONTROL #:
KS0143

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