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3 data pages
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TITLE:
Cheesman Road Bridge, Spanning Pine Bridge, Saint Louis vicinity, Gratiot County, MI

CALL NUMBER:
HAER MICH,29-STLO.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 11   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 2 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Smith Bridge Company of Toledo,OH

NOTE:
Survey number HAER MI-21

Building/structure dates: 1886 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1955 subsequent work

Significance: The Cheesman Road Bridge is significant because it is one of the few wrought-iron pin-connected, Pratt truss highway bridges surviving in Michigan. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

SUBJECTS:
MICHIGAN--Gratiot County--Saint Louis vicinity
wrought-iron truss bridges
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.mi0203

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. VIEW OF THE SOUTHWEST BANK
2. VIEW OF THE SOUTH APPROACH
3. DETAIL VIEW OF THE NORTH APPROACH
4. VIEW OF THE MANUFACTURER'S NAME PLATE
5. VIEW OF THE ABUTMENT
6. DETAIL VIEW OF MID-SECTION OF THE PIER, SOUTHWEST SIDE
7. VIEW OF THE UPPER CORNER CONNECTION, SOUTHWEST SIDE
8. VIEW OF OVAL CONNECTION, EAST SIDE
9. VIEW OF THE PIER, SOUTHWEST BANK OF BRIDGE
10. VIEW OF LOWER DETAIL CONNECTION, NORTHWEST SIDE OF BRIDGE
11. VIEW OF SUBSTRUCTURE

CONTROL #:
MI0203

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