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[State Director of Public Works Earl Lee Kelly and engineer C. H. Purcell planning for the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge]

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Title: [State Director of Public Works Earl Lee Kelly and engineer C. H. Purcell planning for the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933 June 15
Contributing Institution: San Francisco Public Library
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Description: Folder: S.F. Bridges-Bay-People.
Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
On back: "SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE; Walter G. Swanson; 500 Sansome St. - GA rfield 1415. File 900.11 B-12/AA. PREPARATIONS FOR SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE - State Director of Public Works Earl Lee Kelly took a saw from one of the workmen of the Transbay Construction Company and sawed off a girder to make way for the construction of the most westerly pier of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at the end of Pier 24, San Francisco. Chief Engineer C. H. Purcell, head of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Division of the Department of Public Works (left) is inspecting the job of sawing being done by the Director. 6-15-33".
Type: image
Extent: 1 photographic print:
Subject: Bridges--Bay--People
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs

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