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13 b&w photos
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5 data pages
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1 photo caption pages


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TITLE:
Burt Road Bridge, Spanning east fork of west branch of St. Joseph of, Hillsdale vicinity, Hillsdale County, MI

CALL NUMBER:
HAER MICH,30-HILLS.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 13   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 4 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER MI-50

Significance: The Burt Road Bridge is the only known surviving example of a Michigan bridge built by the Ohio Bridge Company of Toledo, Ohio. This firm was one of many short lived bridge companies that operated in the Midwest in the late nineteenth century.

SUBJECTS:
MICHIGAN--Hillsdale County--Hillsdale vicinity
steel truss bridges
vehicular bridges
pony 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.mi0282

CONTROL #:
MI0282

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