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17 b&w photos
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11 data pages
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1 photo caption pages


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TITLE:
Melrose Bridge, Spanning Black River at State Trunk Highway 108, Melrose, Jackson County, WI

CALL NUMBER:
HAER WIS,27-MELR,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 17   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 10 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER WI-71

Building/structure dates: 1922 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1985 demolished

Significance: Only six Pennsylvania highway trusses are known to have been built in Wisconsin. Four of the six, including the Melrose Bridge, have been replaced within the last 10 years. The Melrose Bridge is an example of a State Highway Commission design that was fabricated by a leading Wisconsin bridge building company, Worden-Allen.

SUBJECTS:
WISCONSIN--Jackson County--Melrose

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.wi0328

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. GENERAL VIEW OF SETTING LOOKING NORTHWEST
2. 3/4 FRONTAL VIEW LOOKING NORTHEAST
3. BARREL VIEW LOOKING NORTH
4. CLOSE-UP BARREL VIEW LOOKING NORTH
5. CLOSE-UP 3/4 FRONTAL VIEW LOOKING NORTHWEST
6. BARREL VIEW LOOKING SOUTH FROM NORTH APPROACH
7. CLOSE-UP BARREL VIEW LOOKING SOUTH
8. 3/4 FRONTAL VIEW OF PONY TRUSS LOOKING SOUTHEAST
9. DETAIL INTERIOR VIEW LOOKING NORTHWEST
10. DETAIL OF LATERAL BRACING LOOKING NORTHWEST
11. DETAIL OF TOP CHORD AND SWAY BRACING
12. DETAIL OF INCLINED ENDPOST LOOKING WEST
13. DETAIL OF PORTAL LOOKING NORTH
14. DECK AND UNDERSIDE OF BRIDGE LOOKING NORTHEAST
15. DETAIL OF BOTTOM CHORD LOOKING NORTH
16. DETAIL OF EAST ROLLER BEARING ON NORTH ABUTMENT
17. DETAIL OF NAMEPLATE AT NORTH END

CONTROL #:
WI0328

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