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 13 b&w photos |  16 data pages |  2 photo caption pages |  1 color transparencies |
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TITLE:
Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge, Spanning Susquehanna River at Lincoln Highway (Sta, Columbia, Lancaster County, PA
CALL NUMBER:
HAER PA,36-COL,1-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 13 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 15 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Color Transparencies: 1
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Long, James B.
Wiley, Glen
Maxon, G. W.
Wiley-Maxon Construction Company
McMinn Industries
Gladelter, Rep. Samuel F.
DeLony, Eric N., project manager
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, sponsor
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, sponsor
Semmer, Blythe, historian
Elliott, Joseph E. B., photographer
Eliott, Joseph, Photographer
NOTE:
Survey number HAER PA-473
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N452).
Building/structure dates: 1929 initial construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 88000764
Part of building/structure is in Wrightsville, York County, PA.
Significance: When it was dedicated on Armistice Day, 1930, the bridge was the longest multiple-arch concrete bridge in the world. 28 three-ribbed open-spandrel reinforced concrete arches, carry the bridge across the Susquehanna between Lancaster and York counties. The span's construction was innovative because it involved the cooperative effort of two counties. Four bridges preceded this span at this historically important river crossing...
SUBJECTS:
PENNSYLVANIA--Lancaster County--Columbia
toll bridges
concrete arch bridges
transportation
OTHER TITLE:
Lincoln Highway, Bridge over Susquehanna River
Lancaster-York Intercounty Bridge
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.pa3595
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
3/4 VIEW FROM NORTHWEST.
3/4 VIEW FROM SOUTHWEST.
APPROACH FROM WEST.
DECK VIEW, LOOKING EAST.
3/4 VIEW FROM NORTHEAST.
DETAIL, FROM SOUTHWEST.
DETAIL OF PIER, ON WEST BANK, LOOKING NORTHWEST.
DETAILS OF UNDERSIDE AT WEST END.
EAST APPROACH SPANS FROM NORTHWEST.
DETAIL OF TOP OF PIER, LARGER SIZE AT EACH END.
DETAIL OF TOP PIER, INTERMEDIATE PIERS.
BUILDERS PLATE AT WEST END.
BENCH AT WEST END.
3/4 VIEW FROM SOUTHWEST.
CONTROL #:
PA3595
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