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9 b&w photos
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15 data pages
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TITLE:
Earl Iron Bridge, Spanning Namekagon River at North Road, Earl vicinity, Washburn County, WI

CALL NUMBER:
HAER WIS,65-EARL.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 9   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 14 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Worden-Allen Company

NOTE:
Survey number HAER WI-75

Building/structure dates: 1914 initial construction

Significance: The Earl Iron Bridge is a single span, riveted, Pratt overhead truss iron bridge which carries North Road over the Namekagon River in Washburn County, Wisconsin. The bridge was designed by Wisconsin State Highway Commission bridge engineer M.W. Torkelson as a standardized bridge plan and built by Worden-Allen Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Earl Iron Bridge remains as one of few overhead iron truss bridges extant in Wisconsin which retains a relatively high level of integrity.

SUBJECTS:
WISCONSIN--Washburn County--Earl vicinity

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.wi0342

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. WEST SIDE, FACING EAST
2. WEST SIDE, FACING EAST
3. WEST SIDE, FACING EAST
4. EAST SIDE, FACING WEST
5. EAST SIDE, FACING WEST
6. NORTH PORTAL, FACING SOUTH
7. NORTH PORTAL DETAIL, FACING SOUTH
8. SOUTH PORTAL DETAIL, FACING NORTH
9. DETAIL, NORTHWEST RIVETED JOINT

CONTROL #:
WI0342

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