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7 b&w photos
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10 data pages
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TITLE:
Cunningham Lane Bridge, Spanning Pine River on Cunningham Lane near Highwa, Rockbridge, Richland County, WI

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

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 7   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 9 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company

NOTE:
Survey number HAER WI-51

Building/structure dates: 1895 initial construction

Significance: The Cunningham Lane Bridge, a Pratt full-slope pony truss, is one of the earliest remaining Pratt trusses in Wisconsin. Built by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, a significant regional bridge fabricator, the small truss is indicative of the period's bridge designs and construction ideology.

SUBJECTS:
WISCONSIN--Richland County--Rockbridge

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.wi0217

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. GENERAL SETTING. WEST BANK LOOKING SOUTHEAST.
2. ROAD VIEW SHOWING LUMBER DECK. EAST BANK LOOKING WEST.
3. VIEW OF CENTER PANEL SHOWING DIAGONAL TENSION MEMBERS AND LOWER CHORD CONNECTIONS. EAST BANK LOOKING SOUTHWEST.
4. UPPER CHORD AND VERTICAL MEMBER PIN CONNECTION. NORTHERN TRUSS.
5. UPPER CHORD UNDERSIDE VIEW SHOWING CHANNEL IRON AND LATTICE WORK CONSTRUCTION AND TENSION MEMBER CONNECTION. DECK VIEW LOOKING EAST.
6. ENCASED CONCRETE FOOTINGS AND WOODEN RETAINING WALL. EAST BANK LOOKING WEST.
7. BOTTOM CHORD PIN CONNECTION. EAST BANK LOOKING SOUTHWEST.

CONTROL #:
WI0217

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