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Blackwell's Island Bridge : Dedicated as Queensboro Bridge

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Description: This bound album contains photographs documenting the construction of New York City's Blackwell's Island Bridge from 1904 through its completion in 1908. The progress views show heavy machinery, workers, and the sophisticated engineering involved in the bridge construction. Each photograph is captioned.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1904-1908
Call number: photCL 465
Provenance: Gift of Eugene Mendel, July 5, 2000.
Dimensions: images approximately 19 x 25 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in), album 29 x 39 cm
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Potomac Creek Bridge

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Big Creek Powerhouse #4 - Construction pictures taken by Dam & Tunnel Office. [workers and their spouses celebrating the completion of Tunnel 2]

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A construction crew posing for a picture on the bridge they are working on

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A construction crew posing for a picture on the bridge they are working on. The bridge is unidentified.

photCL SCE 04 - 00762

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Photographs documenting construction of the Mandalay Steam Station Cooling Water Intake Canal

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Three photograph albums documenting the construction of a seawater intake canal by Southern California Edison Company for the Mandalay thermal power station on the coast of Oxnard in Ventura County, California. The photographs were compiled by an unidentified civil engineer working on the Edison Canal project from 1958 to 1959. The canal was designed to bring cooling water from the Channel Islands Harbor into the Mandalay station. Images include the power plant, heavy equipment, bridges in the harbor, dredging, workers, and aerial views of the area. In 2010, the California State Water Resources Control Board ordered power plants that draw in sea water for cooling to shut down by 2020; the Mandalay station was decommissioned in 2018. The prints are in color and black-and-white, and are all dated and captioned.

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Blackwell's Island Bridge : Dedicated as Queensboro Bridge

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