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3 data pages
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TITLE:
Bear Creek Bridge, Spanning Bear Creek on St. Killian Road, Buena Vista, Richland County, WI

CALL NUMBER:
HAER WIS,52-BUVI,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 4   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 2 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Penn Bridge Works

NOTE:
Survey number HAER WI-42

Building/structure dates: 1886 initial construction

Significance: The Bear Creek Bridge is an example of early, single-span Pratt Half-Hip Pony truss. The construction technique of built-up members is typical for the pre-1895 period.

SUBJECTS:
WISCONSIN--Richland County--Buena Vista

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.wi0208

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. VIEW OF ELEVATION, LOOKING EAST
2. VIEW OF SOUTH TRUSS, LOOKING NORTH
3. VIEW OF CENTER PANEL, SHOWING SOUTH TRUSS
4. VIEW OF BRIDGE PLATE

CONTROL #:
WI0208

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