[Assembly test of Marin tower leg of Golden Gate Bridge in Pottstown, Pennsylvania]

[]Details

Local identifier: AAD-0988
Title: [Assembly test of Marin tower leg of Golden Gate Bridge in Pottstown, Pennsylvania]
Date: 1933 Aug. 4
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: International News Photos (New York, N.Y.)
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Bridges-Golden Gate-Construction-Materials.
On back: SPAN TOWER TO SPAN CONTINENT--Picture shows one of the Marin tower legs of the Golden Gate Bridge, as assembled in a test at the steel mill in Pottstown, PA. This structure will be set directly on the concrete Marin pier already completed. This is the first section. Two of these legs are being shipped. The weight of each is more than 750 tons. The shipment will arrive this month, the tower construction work will start in September.".
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.)
Building materials
Keywords: Bridge construction
Bibliographic Number: .b10258371
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:140834