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9 b&w photos
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10 data pages
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TITLE:
Springdale Bridge, Federal Aid Secondary Route 563, Springdale vicinity, Park County, MT

CALL NUMBER:
HAER MONT,34-SPRIDA.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 9   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 9 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company
Hunter, Dr. A. J.
Mendenhall, Cyrus B.
Murray, James A.
Ford, Tandy R., historian
Quivik, Fredric L., historian

NOTE:
Survey number HAER MT-10

Building/structure dates: 1908 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1916 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1981

Significance: The bridge is significant for its associations with the development of transportation systems to accommodate settlement and tourism in the early 20th century; and as an example of the work of the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company, an important Minneapolis firm who built numerous bridges in Montana primarily during the Homestead era.

SUBJECTS:
MONTANA--Park County--Springdale vicinity
agriculture
fires
civil engineering

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.mt0039

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. Pratt and Pennsylvania trusses - view to the west.
2. Three quarters view of Pratt and Pennsylvania trusses - view to the northwest.
3. Pratt through truss, portal and timber deck - view to the north.
4. Pratt through truss, timber decking and guardrail view to the north.
5. Truss and pier detail - view to the northeast.
6. Stringer and floor beam detail - view to the north.
7. Pennsylvania through truss, pier and shoe detail.
8. Pratt through truss, upper chord and pin connection detail.
9. Pratt through truss, portal bracing and pin connection detail.

CONTROL #:
MT0039

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