Cutting Suspension Bridge Cables (1918)

Cutting Suspension Bridge Cables (1918)

Suspension bridges -- Construction

Cutting one of the suspension bridge cable sets on the south side in 1918. Cables were fastened to ""deadmen"" underground, passing through large stone structures on the surface. (These structures were not used on Pennsylvania Avenue, on the north end of the bridge.)

Unknown

1918

19th and 20th Century photography and text.

Image

Photographs

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2005-11

Warren Library Association Photograph Collection

148

Allegheny Chronicles-Rafting and Lumbering

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