White's Bridge, Spanning Flat River, White's Bridge Road, Smyrna, Ionia County, MI

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13 b&w photos
9 data pages
2 photo caption pages
1 color transparencies

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TITLE:
White's Bridge, Spanning Flat River, White's Bridge Road, Smyrna, Ionia County, MI

CALL NUMBER:
HAER MI-331

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 13 (5 x 7)
Data Page(s): 8 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Color Transparencies: 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER MI-331

Building/structure dates: 1869 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1936 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1967 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1991 subsequent work

Significance: White's Bridge is one of two surviving examples of a Brown truss covered bridge in the United States. Patented by Josiah Brown Jr. in 1857, the Brown truss represents a mid-nineteenth century flowering of innovation in American timber bridge design.

SUBJECTS:
MICHIGAN--Ionia County--Smyrna
covered bridges
transportation

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.mi0685

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
PERSPECTIVE, 320 DEGREES, NORTHWEST.
OBLIQUE PERSPECTIVE, DUE NORTH.
STRUCTURAL DETAIL, LOOKING NORTH.
LOWER CHORD STRUCTURAL DETAIL
SOUTH ABUTMENT, DETAIL. NOTE MISSING STRUT TO LEFT.
SOUTH PORTAL PERSPECTIVE, LOOKING NORTH.
SOUTH PORTAL ELEVATION.
INTERIOR FROM MID-SPAN, LOOKING SOUTH.
INTERIOR, NORTH PORTAL.
OBLIQUE PERSPECTIVE, LOOKING SOUTH.
BELOW DECK, LOOKING SOUTH.
NORTH PORTAL ELEVATION, LOOKING SOUTH.
PERSPECTIVE, SOUTH.
BELOW DECK, LOOKING SOUTH.

CONTROL #:
MI0685

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