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Title: [Contextual aerial view of Chili Bar Bridge] (5 views)
Creator: Harrison, Lynn
Contributor: Parks, Bonnie Wehle
Snyder, John W
Historic American Engineering Record
Date Created and/or Issued: 1993
Publication Information: San Francisco, Calif. : Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, Western Region
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Views 1-5 of a set of 23 images.
Accompanied by: Photographs, written historical and descriptive data / report prepared by Bonnie Wehle Parks and John W. Snyder (California Dept. of Transportation). [39] leaves ; 28 cm. HAER CA-137. Includes bibliographical references.
View 1 (2011-1207). CA-137-1. Contextual aerial view of bridge in setting, from upstream, view to west-northwest -- view 2 (2011-1208). CA-137-2. Contextual aerial view of bridge in setting, view to north-northeast -- view 3 (2011-1209). CA-137-3. Contextual aerial view of bridge in setting, from downstream, view to east-southeast -- view 4 (2011-1210). CA-137-4. Contextual aerial view of bridge in setting, view to south-southwest -- view 5 (2011-1211). CA-137-5. Contextual aerial view of bridge in setting, view to southeast.
Chili Bar Bridge is reinforced-concrete, open-spandrel, fixed-arch structure consisting of seven spans (a main span, three arch spans and two cantilevered approach spans). It spans the South Fork of the American River on State Highway 193, Chili Bar, El Dorado County. Fourth bridge to be built at this location, work was completed in 1922. Designed by John Buck Leonard; Henry Lahiff was supervisor and inspector of job, constructed by John H. May of Napa.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 5 photographic prints ; 8 x 10 in.and 10 x 8 in.
Identifier: (C)001443082CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Leonard, John B.,, 1864-1945
Lahiff, Henry,, 1868-
Bridges--California--El Dorado County
Rivers--California
El Dorado County (Calif.)--Photographs
Chili Bar (El Dorado County, Calif.)--Photographs
American River, South Fork (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Aerial photographs
Place: California
El Dorado County
El Dorado County (Calif.)
Chili Bar (El Dorado County, Calif.)
American River, South Fork (Calif.)

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