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5 data pages
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TITLE:
Sock Road Bridge, Spanning Beaver Dam River, Lowell, Dodge County, WI

CALL NUMBER:
HAER WIS,14-LOW,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 16   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 4 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
E. Kunert Manufacturing Company
Newbery, Robert S., Historian
Wollin, Doug, Photographer

NOTE:
Survey number HAER WI-2

Building/structure dates: 1893 initial construction

Significance: One of the oldest metal truss bridges in the State, it may have been one of the earliest truss spans manufactured by the E. Kunert Manufacturing Company (1888-1915) of Watertown, Wisconsin. Offers evidence of manufacturing capacity of a typical small foundry of that period.

SUBJECTS:
WISCONSIN--Dodge County--Lowell
iron industry
civil engineering
bridge construction

OTHER TITLE:
Westphal 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.wi0007

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. GENERAL VIEW LOOKING SOUTHWEST
2. GENERAL VIEW SHOWING FULL FRAME, LOOKING NORTHEAST
3. GENERAL VIEW LOOKING NORTH NORTHEAST
4. GENERAL VIEW OF BRIDGE AND SETTING FROM SOUTHWEST
5. GENERAL VIEW LOOKING ACROSS BRIDGE PROM SOUTH
6. GENERAL VIEW LOOKING WEST NORTHWEST
7. DETAIL VIEW OF SOUTH END LOOKING NORTH ACROSS BRIDGE
8. DETAIL OF NORTHEAST CORNER SUPPORT LOOKING WEST SOUTHWEST
9. DETAIL OF UNDERSIDE OF BRIDGE AT NORTH END
10. DETAIL OF UPPER STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURER'S NAMEPLATE AT SOUTH END OF BRIDGE
11. DETAIL VIEW OF NORTHEAST CORNER LOOKING SOUTH, BASE OF BRIDGE
12. DETAIL VIEW OF NORTHWEST CORNER OF BRIDGE FRAME, LOOKING NORTHWEST
13. DETAIL OF BOTTOM CHORD HIP VERTICAL CONNECTION, NORTHEAST CORNER
14. DETAIL OF BOTTOM CHORD CONNECTION
15. DETAIL OF TOP CHORD CONNECTION
16. DETAIL OF BRIDGE SEAT

CONTROL #:
WI0007

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