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2 drawings
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17 b&w photos
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7 data pages
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3 photo caption pages
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4 color transparencies


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TITLE:
Steel Bridge, Spanning Jackson Road at Confederate Avenue, Vicksburg vicinity, Warren County, MS

CALL NUMBER:
HAER MISS,75-VICK,19-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 2  (24 x 36 in.)
Photo(s): 17   (4 x 5 in. and 5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 6 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 4

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Penn Bridge Company
Croteau, Todd, project supervisor
Davis, Tim, project supervisor
Brooks, Pete, field supervisor
James, Deborah, delineator
Seale, Gregory, delineator
Jones , Courtney, historian

NOTE:
Survey number HAER MS-12

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N479).

Building/structure dates: 1903 initial construction

Significance: The steel arch bridge on Confederate Avenue in Vicksburg National Military Park is significant for its design. It is the only extant steel arch bridge in the State of Mississippi. The structure was included among a number of the state's historic bridges nominated for the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

SUBJECTS:
MISSISSIPPI--Warren County--Vicksburg vicinity
civil engineering
roads
girder bridges

OTHER TITLE:
Confederate Avenue Bridge
Vicksburg National Military Park

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.ms0205

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. GENERAL VIEW OF BRIDGE ELEVATION
2. GENERAL VIEW OF BOTTOM CHORD OF ARCH
3. GENERAL VIEW OF BOTTOM CHORD SHOWING LATERAL BRACING
4. GENERAL VIEW OF DECK AND RAILING
5. DETAIL VIEW OF RAILING
6. DETAIL VIEW OF ARCH ABUTMENT AND SPANDREL DECK SUPPORTS
7. DETAIL VIEW OF CENTER OF ARCH
8. DETAIL VIEW OF HINGE AT CENTER OF ARCH

CONTROL #:
MS0205

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