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Description
5 images. New Bridge...Pasadena, 17 October 1951. Crane pouring concrete for new piers, etc. Caption slip reads: "Daily. Photographer: Richardson. Date: 1951-10-17. Reporter: Swaim. Assignment: New bridge, Pasadena. K19: Looking thru clam shell bucket toward new piers of new 6 lane Colorado Street bridge. Nearest piers are 30 ft. underground, now 30 ft above ground, will be 85 ft. higher, to become largest structural concrete pour in history of bridge dept., Calif. Div. of Hiways. K20, 6: Crane pouring concrete for other new piers, old Colorado St., bridge in background. K5: Another shot of largest piers. K15: Looking west from east abbutment showing columns, piers, and new roadway cut from hillside on west end. K16: Looking west between columns, showing old bridge and arroyo channel.
Type
image
Format
5 photograph : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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