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[Workers spinning cables at night during construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge]

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Title: [Workers spinning cables at night during construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge]
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1933 and 1936]
Contributing Institution: San Francisco Public Library
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Description: Folder: S.F. Bridges-Bay-Construction-Cable Working.
Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
On back: "SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE; Walter G. Swanson; 500 Sansome St. - GA rfield 1415; File 900.11 B-12/BD. NIGHT CABLE SPINNING - Under powerful arc lights, working night and day, cable spinners are laying the silvery strands of wire connecting San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island for the west half of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Chief Engineer C. H. Purcell has ordered a twenty-four-hour day work wherever possible so that the bridge can be opened to traffic by November 1936.
Type: image
Extent: 1 photographic print:
Subject: Bridges--Bay--Construction--Cable Working
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs

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