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Title: Colorado Street Bridge
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Gulker, Chris
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1983
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
The Colorado Street Bridge was designed and built in 1913 by the Kansas City (MO)-based firm of J.A.L. Waddell. With a span of 1,486 feet and known for its distinctive Beaux Arts arches, lights, and railings, the bridge is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.; Photograph caption reads: "While the Colorado Street Bridge today spans a humble waterway, it was a different story in 1913". Photograph dated: Oct. 20, 1983.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00076479
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b061_f1_i9
CARL0002879073
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25727
Subject: Arch bridges--California--Pasadena
Historic bridges--California--Pasadena
Bridges--California--Pasadena
Pasadena (Calif.)
Colorado Street Bridge (Pasadena, Calif.)
Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Waddell, J. A. L.(John Alexander Low),1854-1938

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