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Date:: 1929-04-23
Description:: Image #248 (4.5" x 2.75"): "4-23-29. Span 5 completed and working on Span 6."; Image #249 (4.5" x 2.75"): "4-23-29. From top of anchor pier 7, looking west toward Span Traveler B erecting Span 6." Image #250 (4.5" x 2.75"): 4-23-29. From top of viaduct at bent #12E, looking west. Town Creek Span in distance.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 248, 249, 250

Date:: 1929-04-24
Description:: Image #247 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-24-29. Spans 10, 11, and 12. Span 10 under erection."; Image #252 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-24-29. From Span 1E, looking east. Hydraulic fill causeway in distance."; Image #251 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-24-29. re-erecting viaduct traveler on Span 1E, at Pier 13, to complete East Approach."; Image #253 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-24-29. East abutment - looking west. Spans 21E to 13E have been erected by C.E. Hillyer.";Four 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 247, 251, 252, 253

Date:: 1929-04-24 and 1929-04-23
Description:: Image #254 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-24-29. East Approach - end of causeway and start of steel girder spans."; Image #256 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-24-29. Typical timber pile falsework footing before being braced. Piles are unusually well lined up."; Image #255 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-23-29. Falsework footings 28 and 29 & Pier 8 beyond - looking east from top of anchor pier 7."; Image #257 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-23-29. Framing timber falsework pile bents.";Four 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 254, 255, 256, 257

Date:: 1929-04-24 and 1929-04-23
Description:: Image #258 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-23-29. Driving piles and framing."; Image #260 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-23-29. Falsework footing #16, under deck span #10. Two (2) plumb piles and six (6) battered piles under each col."; Image #259 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-23-29. Timber falsework footings under Span 10. Av. depth of water = 25' at low tide."; Image #261 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-24-29. typical detail of steel falsework col. on ton of 2-200 ton wedge jacks. Deck spans.";Four 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 258, 259, 260, 261

Date:: 1929-04-26 and 1929-04-24
Description:: Image #264 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-24-29. Driving piles for falsework footings. Anchor Pier 10."; Image #266 (2.75" x 4.5"): "Progress in Cooper River. Looking north."; Image #265 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-24-29. Typical group of piles pulled together for bracing & cutting off."; Image #267 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-26-29. Loading cypress piles from car to lighter.";Four 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 264, 265, 266, 267

Date:: 1929-04-26 and 1929-04-28
Description:: Image #268 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-26-29. Twelve carloads of chords for Cooper River Span. 3 cars per load of 3 - 90 ft. chords."; Image #270 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-26-29. Line of bottom chords - Spans 10, 11, & 12. From top of Pier 10, looking east."; Image #269 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-26-29. 90 ft. Chord sections for Anchor Arm. Lightest chords 15 tons each and heaviest, 36 tons."; Image #271 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-28-29. Looking up the West Approach toward Town Creek Span. Street paved (see #36).";Four 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 268, 269, 270, 271

Date:: 1929-04-26
Description:: Unnumbered Image (5" x 7"): "Progress in Cooper River, April 26, 1929 at 4:30 P.M. material tower at Pier 13 (right) is erecting viaduct traveler 'C' to complete the east Approach.";One 5" x 7" B/W photo

Date:: 1929-04-28 and 1929-04-29
Description:: Image #272 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-28-29. Town Creek Span, looking east from near the end of west approach."; Image #273 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-28-29. Progress in Cooper River."; Image #274 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-29-29. Traveler A erecting end floorbeam of west anchor arm at Pier 10."; Image #275 (2.75" x 4.5"): "End floorbeam of west anchor arm hung on stringers of deck span. First steel erected on anchor arm.";Four 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 272, 273, 274, 275

Date:: 1929-04-30 and 1929-04-29
Description:: Image #276 (2.75" x 4.5"): "4-30-29. 8-Ton Vulcan Gasoline Locomotive, shifting Crane 19 (100 tons) in storage yard."; Image #277 (2.75" x 4.5"): "Same as 276."; Image #278 (4.5" x 2.75"): "4-29-29. Connecting anchor column to end floorbeam - Pier 10. (See 274-5).";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 276, 277, 278

Date:: 1929-04-30 and 1929-04-29
Description:: Image #279 (4.5" x 2.75"): "4-29-29. Preparing to drive pin in anchor column - Pier 10."; Image #280 (4.5" x 2.75"): "4-30-29. Anchor bent on Pier 10 erected complete."; Image #281 (4.5" x 2.75"): "4-30-29. Erecting timber stair tower at Pier 10.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 279, 280, 281

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