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http://www.ambassadorbridge.com/
Features a substantive history, bridge facts, and current data. Spans the Detroit river between the United States and Canada.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/bridge.htm
Designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White during the 1920s. Opened 1932. Located in Washington, the capital city of the United States of America.
http://www.pelicannetwork.net/bigsur.bixby.bridge.htm
Essay by Sean Vitousek discusses the building and social aspects of this Californian bridge.
http://www.iceandcoal.org/bridges/bridgefront.html
Provides recent news on historic bridges, and photographs and articles on some notable examples.
http://www.past-inc.org/historic-bridges/HistoryofBB.html
Features history of bridge building, notable builders, individual bridges classified by construction type, and preservation case studies.
http://www.past-inc.org/historic-bridges/Bridges.html
About forty bridges in the state are illustrated and described.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AGY3214
Full text of the proceedings and report of the board of civil engineers convened at St. Louis, in August, 1867.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;rgn=full+text;idno=AJS2117.0001.001;didno=AJS2117.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000003
Full text of an address, in commemoration of the opening together with a report of the proceedings and remarks. Written by Edwin Sanborn in 1859.
http://www.7bridgesrd.org/
Information and photographs of the McGilvray bridges, a series of bowstring arches from the turn of last century, located in the Van Loon Wildlife area, La Crosse County, Wisconsin.
http://www.livinggoldpress.com/bridges.htm
Article on the history of California bridges by Jill Livingston, published in the Society for Commercial Archeology Journal.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Environment/CulRes/bridges.htm
Inventory of historic Washington State bridges with photographs and information on each.
http://www.mcc.co.mercer.pa.us/engr/hist_main.HTM
Photographs and data of covered, arch, and steel bridges.
http://members.tripod.com/~djkuba/index-12.html
Essays and photographs of truss, suspension, and covered bridges.
http://bridgehunter.com/
Database of historic bridges listed by state.
http://explorer.road.jp/bridges/lenticulartruss/index-e.html
Article on these bridges and their history with photographs and details of Boardman Bridge, CT, Lover's Leap Bridge, CT, Neshanic Station Bridge, NJ and Smithfield Street Bridge, PA.
http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,1607,7-151-9620_11154_11188---,00.html
Photographs and data listed by County.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;rgn=full+text;idno=AJS2172.0001.001;didno=AJS2172.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000001
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports on the bridge construction.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4h4nb6gf/
Photographic collection of the construction between 1931-1936. Held at the Bancroft Library, University of California.
http://www.thebridgeproject.com/
Aims to save the 97-year-old Hojack Swing Bridge in Rochester, New York. News, images and related documents. Also a collection of illustrated articles about bridges worldwide.
http://www.threerivershms.com/simmsbridges.htm
Extract from the book written by Jeptha R. Simms in 1883. Covers the history of the early bridges.
http://www.greenvillebridge.com/2a_1940.htm
Historical data of this steel through-truss bridge across the Mississippi river. Includes facsimile of the original handbill with facts and diagrams, and a gallery of construction photographs.
http://www.letchworthparkhistory.com/bridge.html
Tom Cook's illustrated history including sources and related links. Rebuilt in 1874 after fire had destroyed the original wooden structure. Located in the Genesee Valley, New York State.
http://caboosenut.com/rupert_bridge.htm
Campaign to save this bridge in Columbia County which was built by the Phoenix Bridge Company in 1933.
http://structurae.net/structures/walnut-street-bridge
Provides technical information on the cast and wrought iron bridge built at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, around 1890. Includes a number of photographs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City)
The medieval bridge over the Thames was rebuilt in 1825 to designs by John Rennie. In 1968 the Rennie bridge was demolished and rebuilt in Lake Havasu, Arizona.
http://www.worldtimzone.com/railtrail/youngshighbridge/
Illustrated article with related links. Details the 1889 construction of the railroad bridge near Tyrone, Kentucky.
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