Article ID: CBB189522320

HAER's Historic Bridge Program (1989)

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Eric DeLony (Author)


IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Pages: 57-71


Publication Date: 1989
Edition Details: THEME ISSUE: BRIDGES
Language: English

Since 1975, when the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) began a concerted effort to document the most historic bridges in the United States, over 106,000 bridges have been scheduled for replacement because they are structurally deficient and/or functionally obsolete. Without this program the nation would lose, in a single generation, the physical evidence of America's greatest engineering and manufacturing achievement—the prefabricated metal truss bridge.

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Article Emory L. Kemp; Jet Lowe (1989) The Fabric of Historic Bridges. IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 3-22). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Eric DeLony
Dana L. Lockett
Todd A. Croteau
Thomas M. Behrens
Dean Herrin
Theodore Penn
Journals
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Publishers
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Concepts
Industrial archaeology
Documentation
Industrial heritage
Architectural Drawings
Memoirs
Photography, Documentary
People
Roebling, John Augustus
Carnegie, Andrew
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century
Places
United States
Michigan (U.S.)
Cincinatti, OH
Muscle Shoals, AL
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
Rhode Island (U.S.)
Institutions
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
Washburn Wire Company
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Quincy Mining Company
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
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