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TITLE:
Brookside Park Bridge, Spanning Big Creek & Cleveland Metroparks, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

CALL NUMBER:
HAER OHIO,18-CLEV,26-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 5   (4 x 5 in.)
Photo Caption Page(s): 2

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER OH-14

SUBJECTS:
OHIO--Cuyahoga County--Cleveland

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.oh0129

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. Drawing showing detail of foot bridge across Big Creek at Brookside Park, dated 8-1-05. Drawing shows detail of the arch of the Brookside Park footbridge, the first three hinged concrete arch in the United States. The Brookside Park Bridge of 1909 was partially patterned after this earlier bridge. Drawings courtesy of Parks Department, City of Cleveland, Ohio.
2. Drawing of arch over Big Creek for zoo at Brookside park, dated May 16, 1909.
3. Postcard view of the 1905 Brookside Park Footbridge, the first three-hinged concrete arch in the United States. The 1909 Brookside Park Bridge was partially patterned after this earlier structure. Postcard courtesy of Carol Poh Miller, Cleveland, Ohio.
4. Footbridge across Big Creek at Brookside Park (July 1905). This drawing is for the 1905 footbridge, now demolished. Drawing courtesy of the Parks Department, City of Cleveland.
5. General view of bridge.

CONTROL #:
OH0129

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