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 14 b&w photos |  10 data pages |  2 photo caption pages |  1 color transparencies |
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TITLE:
New Portland Suspension Bridge, Spanning Carrabasset River, New Portland, Somerset County, ME
CALL NUMBER:
HAER ME,13-NEWPO,1-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 14 (5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 9 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Color Transparencies: 1
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Elder, David
Clark, Capt. Charles B.
Maine Department of Transportation
Ellet, Charles
Beedy, Daniel
Roebling, John
Marston, Christopher H., project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Bennett, Lola, historian
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
NOTE:
Survey number HAER ME-3
Building/structure dates: 1866 initial construction
Building/structure dates: 1936 subsequent work
Building/structure dates: 1961 subsequent work
Building/structure dates: 2005 subsequent work
Significance: The New Portland (Wire) Bridge is the only early American suspension bridge that remains basically unaltered, aside from John A. Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct.The New Portland Suspension Bridge is the only extant example of a suspension bridge with covered wood towers in the United States.
SUBJECTS:
MAINE--Somerset County--New Portland
civil engineering
suspension bridges
transportation
OTHER TITLE:
Wire 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.me0195
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. GENERAL ELEVATION VIEW
2. GENERAL 3/4 ELEVATION VIEW
3. 'BARREL SHOT VIEW,' SHOWING TOP OF ANCHORAGE
4. 'BARREL SHOT' VIEW FROM OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF VIEW #3
5. DETAIL VIEW OF TOWER
6. DETAIL VIEW OF ANCHORAGE WITH TOWER IN BACKGROUND
7. GENERAL VIEW OF TOWER, TAKEN FROM STREAMBED
8. DETAIL VIEW OF TOWER, TAKEN FROM STREAMBED
9. DETAIL VIEW OF STONE FOUNDATION FOR TOWER
10. DETAIL VIEW OF TOWER, TAKEN FROM BRIDGE DECK
11. DETAIL VIEW OF ANCHORAGE
12. DETAIL VIEW OF LINKS USED AS PART OF ANCHORAGE
13. DETAIL VIEW SHOWING INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF TOWER
14. DETAIL VIEW OF TOWER, SHOWING METHOD OF TIMBER FRAMING
GENERAL ELEVATION VIEW
CONTROL #:
ME0195
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