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| Title | The Berlin Iron Bridge Co. |
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| Publisher | Berlin Iron Bridge Co. |
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| Date | 1889 |
| Description | A 131-page booklet published in 1889 called “The Berlin Iron Bridge Co.” by the namesake title based out of East Berlin, Connecticut. Content includes illustrations of numerous bridges and architectural drawings of bridge components with accompanying text. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | TG380 .B47 1889 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b5572449~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Architecture Retail Catalog Collection |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/aapamphlets |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | This image is in the public domain and may be used freely. If publishing in print, electronically, or on a website, please cite the item using the citation button. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Page 37 |
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| File Name | aapam_201209_006bk.jpg |
| Transcript | THE BERLIN IRON BRIDGE COMPANY, BRIDGE AT WILLIAMSPORT, PA. ^^HE CUT on the opposite page shows a square end view and also a side view of the largest iron highway bridge in the State ® I © of Pennsylvania, which was built by us in 1885, across the Susquehanna River at Williamsport, Pa. The bridge consists of five spans of 200 feet each, with a roadway 18 feet wide in the clear, and replaced an old suspension bridge which was built there many years ago, and which had become entirely too light to carry the largely increasing"traffic. The bridge is owned by a joint corporation, and is used as a toll bridge. Notwithstanding the large expense of taking out the old suspension bridge and putting in a new, first-class, modern iron bridge, the revenue returned to the stockholders has so greatly increased, that the bridge has more than paid the extra cost involved. When the public get an idea that a bridge is weak or insufficient, and liable to collapse, they are not apt to cross it unless it is absolutely necessary, and where the revenue derived from a toll bridge depends entirely upon the amount of traffic, it is important that the brido-e should be of the best material, of the best construction, and the best design possible to be obtained. EAST BERLIN, CONNECTICUT, U. S. A. |