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29 b&w photos
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17 data pages
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4 photo caption pages


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TITLE:
Route 206 Raritan River Bridge, U.S. Route 206 over Raritan River, Somerville vicinity, Somerset County, NJ

CALL NUMBER:
HAER NJ,18-SOMVI.V,4-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 29   (4 x 5 and 8 x 10)
Data Page(s): 16 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 4

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Goodkind, Morris
Hunter, W. F.
Lichtenberg, Arthur G.
Edward H. Ellis Company
Alfson, Mary, transmitter
Tucher, Rob, photographer
Casella, Richard M., historian

NOTE:
Survey number HAER NJ-130

Building/structure dates: 1929 initial construction

Significance: The Route 206 Raritan River Bridge is a well-preserved example of a concrete open-spandrel, barrel-arch bridge, representative of the early work of New Jersey State Highway Department Chief Bridge Engineer Morris Goodkind. Goodkind made important contributions to twentieth-century highway bridge engineering, particularly of concrete bridges.

SUBJECTS:
NEW JERSEY--Somerset County--Somerville vicinity

OTHER TITLE:
Structure No. 1810170

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.nj1730

CONTROL #:
NJ1730

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