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Description
20 images. Piru Gorge Road, 27 September 1951. Adolph Bauer A. Teichert and Sons John F. Smith George W. Smith C.J. McCullough Luther F. Hamilton (widening Northernmost of two Piru Creek bridges from three lanes to divided four lane roadbed). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: McCarty. Date: 1951-09-27. Reporter: Henhoeffer. Assignment: Piru Gorge Road. 21 & 22: L to R: Adolph Bauer, construction superintendent for A. Teichert and Sons, contractors on project and C. J. McCullough, associate State Highway engineer, in charge of project. (Pyramid Peak in back of McCullough in no. 22). 16: Surveying with transit. 4: Road widening on Northernmost of the two Piru bridges, Rocky Point area in background. 20: Construction crew on rerouted channel of Piru Creek on the left at the bottom of the river". 11, 12, 23, 24, 3: Widening Northernmost of the two Piru Creek Bridges from three-lane to divided four-lane roadbed. 17 & 18: Highway in Rocky Point sector where two bridges were (previously located on either side of heavy shadow) eliminated by rerouting the Piru Creek Channel. 9 & 10: L to R: John F. Smith, associate State Highway engineer on project George W. Smith, State Highway junior civil engineer Vernon K. Tarwater, assistant State Highway engineer on project C. J. McCullough, associate State Highway engineer, in charge of project. 5, 6, 7, 8, 19: Bulldozer stripping rock on side of Sliver Cut. (Driver -- Luther F. Hamilton, Saugus, Calif.)".
Type
image
Format
20 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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