[Colonel Willard Chevalier and Chief Engineer C. H. Purcell on an inspection tour of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge five months before it opened to the public]

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Local identifier: AAD-2199
Title: [Colonel Willard Chevalier and Chief Engineer C. H. Purcell on an inspection tour of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge five months before it opened to the public]
Date: 1936 June 12
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-People.
On back: "SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE; Julie F. Goss; 500 Sansome Street - GA rfield 1415. IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Completing an inspection tour of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge are Chief Engineer C. H. Purcell (right) and Col. Willard Chevalier of New York, president of the American Road Builders Association, and Vice-President of McGraw Hill Publications. How the bridge, a part of California's state highway system, will bring the great transcontinental highway directly into San Francisco for the first time, was pointed out by the two highway experts.".
"Gabriel Moulin photograph; California Toll Bridge Authority."
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Engineers--California--San Francisco
Bibliographic Number: .b10270206
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:142016