File:Caltrans, Photographer April 4, 1934 "TOWER -2"; VIEW OF TOWER -2 UNDER CONSTRUCTION, SHOWING HAMMERHEAD CRANE. 6-101 - San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning HAER CAL,38-SANFRA,141-332.tif

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Caltrans, Photographer April 4, 1934 "TOWER -2"; VIEW OF TOWER -2 UNDER CONSTRUCTION, SHOWING HAMMERHEAD CRANE. 6-101 - San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
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Purcell, C H; California Toll Bridge Authority; California Division of Highways; O'Shaughnessy, Michael M; Davies, John Vipond; Modjeski, Ralph; Motor-Car Dealers' Association; War Department; Ridgway, Robert; Talbot, Arthur N; Galloway, John; Hoover, Herbert; Hoover-Young San Francisco Bay Bridge Commission; Bay Bridge Hoover-Young Commission; Requa, Mark; Fellom, Roy; Andrews, Charles; California Department of Public Works; Kelly, Earl Lee; Woodruff, Glenn; Raab, Norman; Tudor, Ralph; Wood, Howard; Moran, Daniel; Robinson, Holton; Moisseiff, Leon; Derleth, Charles, Jr.; Kelham, George; Meyer, Frederick; Plueger, Timothy; U.S. Steel Corporation; Columbia Steel Company; American Bridge Company; McClintic-Marshall; Transbay Construction Company; Bridge Builders, Inc.; General Construction Company; Morrison-Knudsen Company; McDonald and Kahn; Pacific Bridge Company; Valley Bridge and Iron Company; Raymond Concrete Pile Company; Dravo Construction Company; Bechtel-Kaiser-Warren Company; Utah Construction Company; Clinton Construction Company; Healy-Tibbetts; Moore Dry Dock Company; Judson Pacific Company; Western Pipe and Steel Company; Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company; Kaiser Construction; Pacific Coast Steel; Duncanson and Harrelson; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Plambo Brothers; Clinton Construction Company; T.E. Connolly; Daniels Construction Company; Sullivan Machinery Company; Nelson, John, project manager; Peterson, Dan, consultant; Hansen/Murakami/Eishma, Architects and Planners, contractor; JRP Historical Consulting Services, contractor; Dan Peterson, AIA and Associates, Inc., contractor; OPAC Consulting Engineers, contractor
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Caltrans, Photographer April 4, 1934 "TOWER -2"; VIEW OF TOWER -2 UNDER CONSTRUCTION, SHOWING HAMMERHEAD CRANE. 6-101 - San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
Depicted place California; San Francisco County; San Francisco
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER CAL,38-SANFRA,141-332
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most impressive engineering structures in the United States. It is also one of the most important transportation links in the United States, serving as the terminus of an interstate highway and as the linchpin for the transportation network of the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the nation's largest metropolitan regions. The bridge has been recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers as a nationally significant structure from the standpoint of engineering as well as its importance in the transportation history of California and the nation. The Bay Bridge was also a milestone in the political history of the Bay Area. The history of the Bay Area is filled with controversies over transportation projects, from the 19th century debates over subsidies to the railroads, continuing through the freeway revolt of the 1950s and seemingly endless debates between supporters of transit and highway development in more recent decades. The long debate over construction of the Bay Bridge is remarkable for the fact that the people of the Bay Area and their political leaders united behind it with almost unanimous support. People may disagree as to whether the Bay Bridge is more important for its engineering, its role in transportation history or for its importance in the politics of the area. The structure is highly significant in all of these different ways.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N679
  • Survey number: HAER CA-32
  • Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1959-1963 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1989 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca1352.photos.383302p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location37° 46′ 30″ N, 122° 25′ 05.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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