Image / Bridge over Merced River, about 8 miles south of Turlock, California

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Title: Bridge over Merced River, about 8 miles south of Turlock, California
Creator: Heald, C. A
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1905
Publication Information: California State University, Stanislaus. University Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: California State University, Stanislaus. Library
Collection: Stanislaus Region History and Culture Image Collection
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Photograph of one of the early bridges that were built over the Merced, Stanislaus, Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers in Merced and Stanislaus Counties beginning in the 1890s. The early bridges needed to accommodate both the high waters of seasonal flooding and steamboats that used the rivers to transport people and goods. Verso: Chester Bridge, approx.[sic] 1 mile east of present Milliken Bridge, Merced River.
Type: image
Format: 1 postcard; 9 x 14 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt467nd0vh
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Language: English
Subject: Bridges--California--Turlock
Rivers--California
Chester Bridge (Turlock, Calif.)
Place: Merced River (Calif.)

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