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Lee Merrill LM-3.01
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- 1940-01 (Creation)
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Construction of the first Narrows Bridge, later known as the "Galloping Gertie," captured in color in January of 1940. The contractors had the towers in place and were busily spinning the cables that held the bridge together. Each cable was made of over 6,000 wires. In the early 1940's, photographer Lee Merrill was using some of the commercially viable color films that were available on the market. Kodachrome, in 1936, was the first color multi-layered film. The succeeding types and brands also used dye coupled colors where a chemical process connected the three dye layers together for an apparent color image.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma); Bridge construction--Tacoma--1940-1950; Puget Sound (Wash.); Suspension bridges--Tacoma;