[Group of engineers and officials involved in the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge posing inside a dredging well]

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Local identifier: AAD-1907
Title: [Group of engineers and officials involved in the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge posing inside a dredging well]
Date: 1933 Sept. 30
Issuance: monographic
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-Bay-Construction-Caissons.
On back: "SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE; Walter G. Swanson; 500 Sansome St. - GA rfield 1415. File 900.11 B-12/AA. BRIDGE CAISSON DREDGING WELL - The size of one of the dredging wells in the deep water compressed air flotation caissons for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge may be seen from comparison with the size of the men standing within one of the cylinders. Left to right are Chas. E. Andrew, Bridge Engineer, E. J. Schneider, Columbia Steel Company, Chief Engineer C. H. Purcell of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Ralph H. Moore and Joseph A. Moore of Moore Dry Docks, Florence M. McAuliffe, California Toll Bridge Authority, and George Creel. The engineers, in company with the Moore brothers, inspected the progress of caissons in construction at Moore Dry Docks. 9-30-33".
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Caissons
Keywords: Bridge construction
Bibliographic Number: .b10267293
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:141725