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Date:: 1928-12-02
Description:: Images #8, 10, 12 (2.75" x 4.5"): Caption under all photos: Dec. 2, 1928. Three views of pneumatic caisson for anchor pier #10, Cooper River Span, which tilted to an angle 29 [degrees] from the vertical. Seven negro 'sand-hogs' trapped and drowned.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 8, 10, 12

Date:: 1928-12-03
Description:: Image #13 (4.5" x 2.75"): "12-3-28. Span 10 W completed and erecting bent 8 W."; Image #15 (4.5" x 2.75"): "Charleston Viaduct completed to span 10 W. Looking west. 12-3-28."; Image #16 (4.5" x 2.75"): "12-3-28 Driving piles for false work footings under the west anchor arm of the Town Creek Span. Anchor Pier #1 in foreground. Main Pier #2 in background, elev. 134 ft.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 13, 15, 16

Date:: 1928-12-13, 1928-12-04
Description:: Image #14 (2.75" x 4.5"): "12-4-28. Progress. Complete to span 9W."; Image #19 (2.75" x 4.5"): "12-13-29. Complete to 5W and erecting bent 3W."; Images #17, 18 (2.75" x 4.5"): "12-8-28. Wreck on West Approach after runaway of 14 ton girder which pushed locomotive down grade ahead of it.";Four 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 14, 17, 18, 19

Date:: 1928-12-13
Description:: Image #20 (2.75" x 4.5"): "12-13-28. Erecting bent 3W."; Image #21 (4.5" x 2.75"): "12-13-28. Erecting bent 3W."; Image #23 (2.75" x4.5"): "12-13-28. ACL Storage Yard.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 20, 21, 23

Date:: 1929-01-01, 1928-12-13
Description:: Image #22 (2.75" x 4.5"): "12-13-28. Driving Piles for dock at anchor pier #4."; Image #24 (2.75" x 4.5"): "12-23-28. Charleston Approach completed. Looking east toward Town Creek Span."; Image #25 (4.5" x 2.75"): "1-1-29. Assembling steel falsework bents preparatory to erection of the west anchor arm - Town Creek Span. Pier 2 at right.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 22, 24, 25

Date:: 1929-01-03
Description:: Image #26 (2.75" x 4.5"): " 1-3-29. Erecting first bottom chord section, L0L2, west anchor arm."; Image #27 (4.5" x 2.75"): "1-3-29. Steel falsework bent under L2, west anchor arm. connecting first bottom chord."; Image # 28 (2.75" x 4.5"): "1-2-29. Faslework footing #2 under panel point L4 - west anchor arm.;Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 26, 27, 28

Date:: 1929-01-01, 1929-01-03
Description:: Image #29 (4.5" x 2.75"): "1-1-29."; Image #30 (4.5" x 2.75"): "1-3-29." ; Image #31 (4.5" x 2.75"): "1-3-29." Caption under all pictures: "Erecting steel material tower on deck at Pier 4, Town Creek Span, with an 80 ft. boom used first as a gin pole and then as a 'basket boom.' See 32 and 33 for detail of basket support.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 29, 30, 31

Date:: 1929-01-01, 1929-01-06
Description:: Image #32 (2.75" x 4.5"): "1-1-29. Base of boom in Chicago heel and 'basket', used as gin pole on dock at Pier 4."; Image #33 (2.75" x 4.5"): "1-3-29. Base of "basket boom', showing details of support."; Image #36 (4.5" x 2.75"): "1-6-29. West Approach from America St. looking east, before street was paved. (See 271.)";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 32, 33, 36

Date:: 1929-01-10
Description:: Image #37 (2.75" x 4.5"): "1-10-29. West Approach, looking west. From top of traveler on west anchor arm of Town Creek Span."; Image #41 (2.75" x 4.5"): "1-10-29. Joint L2, Town Creek Span. Note front bearing of traveler. Tie down rods have been removed and cable used at this particular point only."; Image #40 (2.75" x 4.5"): "1-10-29. Erecting bottom chord L2L4.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 37, 40, 41

Date:: 1929-01-13, 1929-01-10
Description:: Image #38 (4.5" x 2.75"): "1-10-29."; Image #42 (4.5" x 2.75"): "1-13-29"; Caption under photos 38 & 42: "Timber Stair Tower, 12' x 16' in plan, and 110 ft. high. Eleven flights of stairs, each 10 ft. rise, of 12 steps each. Set up at bent 3W and braced to same at the 3rd points."; Image #43 (4.5" x 2.75"): "1-13-29"; Looking east toward Town Creek from Stair Tower. Material tower at Pier 4, on west bank of Drum Island, in the distance.";Three 4.5" x 2.75" B/W photos numbered 38, 42, 43

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