Sunset Bridge, Spanning Pomme de Terre River, Bolivar vicinity, Polk County, MO

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14 data pages
1 photo caption pages

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TITLE:
Sunset Bridge, Spanning Pomme de Terre River, Bolivar vicinity, Polk County, MO

CALL NUMBER:
HAER MO,84-BOLI.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 12 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 13 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER MO-27

Building/structure dates: 1885 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1931

Building/structure dates: 1930 subsequent work

Significance: This bridge holds the unofficial honor of being the first "iron" bridge to be built in Polk County. It is remarkable that although it is frail, by present standards, it has carried tremendous loads, far beyond its design capacity, for more than a century. Not many bridges have served for more than half a century in each of two locations. It was fabricated by the King Bridge and Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, Ohio.

SUBJECTS:
MISSOURI--Polk County--Bolivar vicinity
civil engineering
moving of structures
railroad companies

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.mo1067

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW TO WEST
2. VIEW TO NORTH-NORTHWEST
3. VIEW TO SOUTH
4. DECK SUPPORT SYSTEM, LOWER CHORD PANEL POINT CONNECTIONS, VIEW EAST-NORTHEAST
5. EAST PORTAL, VIEW TO EAST
6. WEST PORTAL, VIEW TO WEST
7. WEST PORTAL, VIEW TO EAST
8. DETAIL OF TRUSS PANELS, VIEW TO EAST
9. DETAIL OF DIAGONAL MEMBERS, CENTER PANEL
10. DETAIL OF DECK AND LOWER PANEL POINT CONNECTION
11. BEARING, SOUTHEAST CORNER
12. DETAIL OF VERTICAL MEMBER

CONTROL #:
MO1067

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