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AERIAL VIEW, LOOKING SW. CHICAGO and NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY BRIDGE IS IN RAISED POSITION. - Chicago and North Western Railway, Kinzie Street Bridge, Spanning North Branch of Chicago River, South of Kinzie Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL
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AERIAL VIEW, LOOKING SW. CHICAGO and NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY BRIDGE IS IN RAISED POSITION. - Chicago and North Western Railway, Kinzie Street Bridge, Spanning North Branch of Chicago River, South of Kinzie Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL
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Finley, William H; Strauss, Joseph Baerman; Strauss Bascule and Concrete Bridge Company; Toledo-Massillon Bridge Company; Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company; Kelly-Atkinson Construction Company; Wallace, John F; DeLony, Eric N, project manager; Chicago Department of Transportation, sponsor; Daley, Richard M, sponsor; Chicago Department of Transportation, sponsor; Walker, Thomas R, sponsor; Kaderbek, S L, sponsor; Spivey, Justin M, historian; Lowe, Jet, photographer
Depicted place Illinois; Cook County; Chicago
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER ILL, 16-CHIG, 115-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Kinzie Street Bridge occupies the site of Chicago's first railroad bridge (1852), and also the nation's first all-steel railroad bridge (1879). The line served Wells Street Station and industries in the Near North Side, contributing much to that area's development. The present structure is an overhead-counterweight bascule bridge based on the patents of Joseph B. Strauss, and was the world's longest and heaviest bascule leaf at the time of its completion. This is a particularly unusual example of its type because certain elements foreshadow Strauss' subsequent development of a heel-trunnion design for long bascule spans.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N644
  • Survey number: HAER IL-142
  • Building/structure dates: 1907-1909 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/il0821.photos.318216p
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Object location41° 51′ 00″ N, 87° 39′ 00″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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