Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D9413-4
Date(s)
- 1940-01-26 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Construction of the first Narrows Bridge. View of cable spinning machinery and towers. Taken from the Tacoma end of the bridge, the photograph is of the reels which feed the steel wires to be woven into strands, which form the cables that support the bridge. Each strand contains 332 wires. Each completed cable contains 6308 wires. (T. Times Special Edition, 2/27/1940.)
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma); Bridge construction--Tacoma--1940-1950; Puget Sound (Wash.); Suspension bridges--Tacoma;