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Title: Steel girder at East L.A. interchange
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Dramatic nightshot shows 70-ton crane gently placing 26-ton girder for Seventh Street span at East Los Angeles interchange where four freeway s will meet. This girder and six more like it are the longest ever fabricated by U.S. Steel's plant. The big steel pieces measure 146 feet long by 6 feet deep, and were erected by the U.S. Steel American Bridge Division. Information and picture proveided by U.S. Steel.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00008283
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Roads-Freeways.
CARL0000009299
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/87165
Subject: Express highways--California, Southern
Roads--California--Los Angeles--Interchanges and intersections
Roads--California--Los Angeles--Design and construction
United States Steel Corporation

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