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Date:: 1929-05-29
Description:: Image #374 (4.5" x 2.75"): "5-29-29. Top chord joint at U10 - Span 7. Navy destroyers below. Elev. of peak approx. 280 ft. above low water. (S.R. Graham)."; Image #375 (4.5" x 2.75"): "5-29-29. Detail of main boom, hooked onto chord U8 U10."; Image #376 (4.5" x 2.75"): "5-29-29. Erecting U 8 U10. Span 9. (See 373).";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 374, 375, 376

Date:: 1929-05-17
Description:: Image #320 (2.75" x 4.5"): "5-17-29. Setting timber forms for concrete deck, East Approach."; Image #321 (4.5" x 2.75"); "5-17-29. Bowed plates in expansion joint at 9E on the East Approach. Taken to illustrate shop error. report made to V.B. & Iron Co."; Image #322 (2.75" x 4.5"): "5-17-29. Progress in Cooper River.";Three 4.5" X 2.75" B/W photos numbered 320, 321, 322

Date:: 1929-05-29
Description:: Image #372 (2.75" x 4.5"): "5-29-29. Looking down from U10, over Pier 8. Elev. = 280 ft. above water. Note lighter with steel."; Image #373 (4.5" x 2.75"): "5-29-29. Top chord U8 U10 just entered into joint at U8 and ready to be pulled in and connected. Span 9.";Two 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 372, 373

Date:: 1929-06-03 and 1929-06-04
Description:: Image #390 (2.75" x 4.5"): "6-3-29. Connecting top chord U10 U12 to joint at U10."; Image #391 (2.75" x 4.5"): "6-3-29. Erecting U10 U12 - east cantilever arm, south truss."; Image #392 (2.75" x 4.5"): "6-4-29. Progress. Looking east."; Unnumbered image (2.75" x 4.5"): "6-4-29. Progress - looking northeast.";Four 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 390, 391, 392, unnumbered

Date:: 1861
Description:: Caption: 'General Halleck's fleet of mortar-boats for service on the Mississippi.--sketched by Mr. Alexander Simplot.--[see page 827.]' [full date December 28, 1861.]

Date:: 1929-06-06
Description:: Image #399 (2.75" x 4.5") and Image #400 (2.75" x 4.5"): "Member U12 L12 East Cantilever Arm. 96'-0" c. to c. panel points. As erected this member appeared to be 3 1/2" short, due to fabrication of members, some shorter and some longer than their final geometric lengths, and due to the sub-diagonal M11 L12 (lower right). Pulled together by a 7-part auxiliary falls. Engine kept in high gear to reduce power - max. lead line pull = about 9000 [pounds], approx., giving possible capacity of 130 tons. Required one day to connect each member - two days total.;Two 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 399, 400

Date:: 1929-05-18 and 1929-05-21
Description:: Image #336 (2.75" x 4.5"): "5-18-29. Office in A.C.L. Yard. See also #1."; Image #337 (2.75" x 4.5"): "Bottom chord joint at L10 - over main piers 8 and 9. Weight 13 tons. 12'-7" long x 12'-4" high (Main gas. pl. 108" x 1" x 12'-7")."; Image #338 (4.5" x 2.75"): "5-21-29. West anchor arm landing on Pier 8.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 336, 337, 338

Date:: 1929-02-23
Description:: Image #113 (2.75" x 4.5"): "2-23-29. East anchor arm. Traveler Bat L4 Truss erected to L6."; Image #114 (2.75" x 4.5"): "2-23-29. West side - Town Creek Span. Traveler A at L15."; Image #115 (4.5" x 2.75"): "2-23-29. West side - Town Creek Cantilever.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 113, 114, 115

Date:: 1929-03-03
Description:: Image #133 (4.5" x 2.75"): "3-3-29 Detail of lead sheave block at heel of span traveler main boom. See #108."; Image #135 (2.75" x 4.5"): "3-3-29. Detail at top of A-frame. Span traveler."; Image #136 (2.75" x 4.5"): "3-3-29. Progress - Town Creek Span.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 133, 135, 136

Date:: 1929-03-01
Description:: Unnumbered Image (5" x 7"): "Progress March , 1929 at 4:30 P.M. Town Creek Span and Drum Island Viaduct.";One 5" x 7" B/W photo

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