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| Identifier | clevbridge042.jpg |
| Title | Nickel Plate Road Bridge being built across Cuyahoga River in 1955 |
| Creator | Seid, Herman
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| Description | "NKP Rail Road Bridge across the River." Newspaper clipping on back reads"Due to be completed about July 1, this $5,000,000 Nickel Plate Road bridge is part of the $21,000,000 program for relieving Cuyahoga River navigation bottlenecks with six bridge rebuilding projects. Costs are being shared by the railroads and the Federal Government. The new Nickel Plate bridge is being built over the existing bridge in the downtwon flats, south of Lorain-Carnegie Bridge. Three of the six new bridges have been completed. The others are under construction." |
| Original Date | 1955-11-11 |
| Time Period | Post-Industrial: 1930-1959 |
| Location Depicted | Flats (Cleveland, Ohio)
Downtown (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Subject | Nickel Plate Railroad Bridges
Bridge construction
Vertical lift bridges
Railroad bridges
Cuyahoga River
Bridges, Steel
Norfolk Western Corp.
Nickel Plate Railroad Cuyahoga River Bridge
Bridges, Concrete
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| LC Subject Headings | Railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| ASCE Subject Headings | bridges
Bridge construction
Bridges, steel
Bridges, lift
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| Object Type | black-and-white photographs
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| Repository | Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections. |
| Repository Collection | Cleveland Press
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| Repository Homepage | http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/ |
| Digital Collection | Bridges
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| Donor | Cole, Joseph E.
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| Copyright | http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/ |
| Format | Jpeg
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| Language | English
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| Further Reading | http://hlneogis.ulib.csuohio.edu/chronology.asp?id=CUY0016 |
