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Title: Colorado Street Bridge
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Side view of the Colorado Street Bridge (Suicide Bridge), in Pasadena, taken on July 17, 1939.; 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.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00035299
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 13 (2210); Pasadena-Bridges-Colorado Street Bridge.
CARL0000038520
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/99491
Subject: Bridges--California--Pasadena
Arch bridges--California--Pasadena
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks
Waddell, J. A. L.(John Alexander Low),1854-1938
Pasadena (Calif.)
Colorado Street Bridge (Pasadena, Calif.)
Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County, Calif.)

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