[The Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco, Jos. B. Strauss Chief Engineer, 1934]

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Local identifier: AAP-0038
Title: [The Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco, Jos. B. Strauss Chief Engineer, 1934]
Date: 1934.
Issuance: monographic
Place of Publication: San Francisco
Publisher: Stanley A. Piltz Co.,
Collection: San Francisco History Center Postcard Collection
San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Collection Number: SFP 21
Type of Resource: text
Physical Description: 1 photomechanical print (postcard) : color ; 11 x 17 cm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)
Form: print
graphic
Use and Reproduction: RESTRICTIONS APPLY. Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Note: San Francisco History Center Postcard Collection
"Bridging the Golden Gate. This view from San Francisco toward the Marin Shore, shows the Golden Gate Bridge as it will look when completed, January 1937. Approximate cost $5,000,000. Length of main structure 8940 feet. Height of towers above water, 746 feet. Minimum vertical clearance above mean high water is 220 feet. Main span 4200 feet. Total width 90 feet, divided into six lanes for vehicular traffic and two ten and a half foot side walks. This is the largest bridge of its kind in the world. The grand total length including approaches embraced within the project is seven miles.--Caption on verso "
Linen style card.
33 ; 4A-HB42
Language (code): und
Genre: Postcards.
LCSH Subjects: Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.)
Ships
Bibliographic Number: .b10409956
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:155338