[View of the underside of a large bridge caisson used during construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge]

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Local identifier: AAD-2027
Title: [View of the underside of a large bridge caisson used during construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge]
Date: 1933 Aug. 10
Issuance: monographic
Associated Person: Moulin, Gabriel
1872-1945
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-Steel Working.
On back: "SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE; Walter G. Swanson; 500 Sansome St.; GA rfield 1415. File 900.11 B-12/AA. FRIDAY RELEASE. WORM'S-EYE VIEW OF BRIDGE CAISSON - Underneath the world's largest bridge caisson, 92 feet wide by 197 feet long, which will be launched today (Friday) at the Moore Dry Docks, Oakland, when a beribboned bottle will be broken over its 'prow' by Mrs. C. H. Purcell, wife of the Chief Engineer of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The caisson will be sunk through mud and clay to bedrock and form the bottom of a concrete and steel structure extending 478-1/2 feet from the floor of the bay to a point 298-1/2 feet above water, midway between San Francisco and Yerba Buena Island. 8-10-33".
"Gabriel Moulin photograph."
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Steelwork
Keywords: Bridge construction
Bibliographic Number: .b10268492
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:141845