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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
KT-5
Date(s)
- 1939-04 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
In April of 1939, work was underway on the caissons for the Narrows Bridge. The Pacific General Columbia Company construction dock was located at Titlow Beach. This photograph is a general view of the dock, with workers and a policeman or security standing on the dock. The dock angles off to the right where barges and tugs are tied up to it. The tugs and barges were used to ferry equipment and supplies to the job site. (T. Times 4/20/1939, pg. 4)
Suspension bridges--Tacoma; Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma); Titlow Beach (Tacoma); Barges--1930-1940; Bridge construction--Tacoma--1930-1940;