Guide to the Cooper Bridge Collection,
1887-1889 (bulk)

Collection Number: 4709

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Laura Linke
Patrizia Sione
Date completed:
1989
EAD encoding:
Peter M. Martinez. January 2003

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Cooper bridge collection, 1887-1889 (bulk)
Collection Number:
4709
Creator:
Theodore, Cooper 1839-1919
Quantity:
.9 cubic ft. plus 278 items.
Forms of Material:
Technical drawings, bluprints, correspondence
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Consists mainly of letters (194 items) and drawings (ca. 150) sent to Theodore Cooper, giving him information for the important paper on American railroad bridges which he published in Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1889. Also contains notes, sketches, and a few photographs. Drawings are mainly prints and blueprints of railroad bridges, including ones designed by Cooper, Theodore Burr, Timothy Palmer, Lewis Wernwag, and Albert H. Fink. Correspondents include the American Society of Civil Engineers; D.M. Stauffer, editor of Engineering News magazine; H. Bissell, chief engineer, Boston and Maine Rail Road; A.J. Swift, chief engineer, Delaware & Hudson Canal Company; Palmer C. Ricketts, director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and T.R. Lawson, his assistant; Henry McCormick Jr., president of Harrisburg Bridge Company; and the Lehigh Valley Rail Road Company. The collection includes several items about the work of Theodore Burr and Timothy Palmer, earlier civil engineers who had each designed a number of railroad bridges.


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

American civil engineer (1839-1919). Author of the first authoritative specifications on bridge construction, published in 1884.

Theodore Cooper: A Biographical Outline

1839 Born January 13th in Cooper's Plain, NY, the son of John Cooper, Jr., a physician, and Elizabeth M. Evans.
1858 graduated as civil engineer from the Resselaer Institute (now Rensselaer Polytechnic) at the age of nineteen
1861 Becomes Assistant Engineer on the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel. The same year enlists in the Navy and becomes Assistant Engineer for the construction of the gunboatChocura, on which he will serve for the last three years of the Civil War.
1865 Detached from the Chocura, he is ordered to the United States Naval Academy at Newport, RI, then to Annapolis, Md., as Instructor in the new department of Steam Engineering.
1868 Ordered to the Nyack in the South Pacific, where he will serve for two years.
1870 Returns to the Naval Academy.
1872 Resignes from the Navy. In May Capt. James B. Eads, Engineer of the Bridge and Tunnel Company, appoints Cooper the inspector of steel manufacturing for the St. Louis Bridge. He also appoints him superintendent of Andrew Carnegie's giant Keystone Bridge Company in Pittsburgh. At a later point Eads puts Cooper in charge of the construction of the St. Louis Bridge, a successful project that will launch Cooper's career as a bridge engineer.
1879
Sets up as independent consulting engineer in New York. Among his most prestigious projects will be the Seekonk Bridge in Providence, the Sixth Bridge in Pittsburgh, the Second Avenue Bridge in New York City, the Newburyport Bridge over the Merrimac River, and the Junction Bridges over the Allegheny River.
His paper "The Use of Steel for Bridges" is published in the Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Cooper will receive a Normal Medal for this work.
1884 Contributes the important work "General Specifications for Iron Railroad Bridges and Viaducts," the first authoritative specifications on bridge construction ever published and circulated.
1885/1885 Serves as director of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
1889 His paper "American Railroad Bridges" is published in the Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Cooper will receive a Normal Medal for this work.
1894 Appointed by the late President Cleveland as a member of a board of five engineers to determine the span of the Hudson River Bridge. Other consulting work will include the New York Public Library, the Suburban Rapid Transit Company, the New York Rapid Transit Commission, the Boston Rapid Transit Commission, and the harlem River Commission.
1897 Accepts to serve as consulting engineer for the construction of the Quebec Bridge by the Quebec Bridge Company.
1907 The Quebec Bridge collapses, effectively ending Cooper's career as a bridge engineer.
1919 Dies on August 24th in New York City.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Consists mainly of letters (194 items) and drawings (ca. 150) sent to Theodore Cooper, giving him information for the important paper on American railroad bridges which he published in Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1889. Also contains notes, sketches, and a few photographs. Drawings are mainly prints and blueprints of railroad bridges, including ones designed by Cooper, Theodore Burr, Timothy Palmer, Lewis Wernwag, and Albert H. Fink. Correspondents include the American Society of Civil Engineers; D.M. Stauffer, editor of Engineering News magazine; H. Bissell, chief engineer, Boston and Maine Rail Road; A.J. Swift, chief engineer, Delaware & Hudson Canal Company; Palmer C. Ricketts, director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and T.R. Lawson, his assistant; Henry McCormick Jr., president of Harrisburg Bridge Company; and the Lehigh Valley Rail Road Company. The collection includes several items about the work of Theodore Burr and Timothy Palmer, earlier civil engineers who had each designed a number of railroad bridges.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cooper, Theodore,1839-1919
Bissell, H.
Burr, Theodore.
Burr, Theodore.
Fink, Albert, 1827-1897.
Lawson, T. R.
McCormick, Henry,
Palmer, Timothy.
Palmer, Timothy.
Ricketts, Palmer C.
Stauffer, D. M.
Swift, A. J.
Wernwag, Lewis.
American Society of Civil Engineers.
Lehigh Valley Railroad.

Subjects:
Bridges--United States.
Railroad bridges--United States.
Railroads--United States.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Cooper bridge collection, 1887-1889 (bulk) #4709. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Digital Reproductions for Series I. Correspondence, Incoming. Box 1 Folder 1 are available on-line at: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cooper/docviewer?did=cooper0101

RELATED MATERIALS

Collecting program: History of Science Collection.

CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Series I. Correspondence
Incoming Correspondence:
[unidentified]
Box 1 Folder 1
American Society of Civil Engineers (J. Becker, John Bogart);
Box 1 Folder 1
Boston & Maine RR (H. Bissell, Chief Engineer);
Box 1 Folder 1
Bouscaren, G., Consulting Engineer;
Box 1 Folder 1
Buffalo, NY, City Engineer Office (Edward B. Guthrie);
Box 1 Folder 1
Central Railroad & Banking Co. of Ga., Savannah, GA (D. W. Bowman);
Box 1 Folder 1
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. (D.J. Whittemore, Chief Engineer; Onward Bates);
Box 1 Folder 1
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. (Ward Baldwin, Assistant Engineer);
Box 1 Folder 1
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company (A.J. Swift, Chief Engineer);
Box 1 Folder 1
Engineering News (D. McN. Stouffer, Editor);
Box 1 Folder 1
Florence iron River Company (Manfred A. Hauschild, Chief Engineer);
Box 1 Folder 1
Hutton, William R.;
Box 1 Folder 1
Iron city Bridge Works (Albert Schultz);
Box 1 Folder 1
Keefer, Theod.? C.;
Box 1 Folder 1
Kellogg, Chas.;
Box 1 Folder 1
Lafayette College, Department of Civil Engineering (J.G. Fox?)
Box 1 Folder 1
Lehigh Valley Rail Road Co. (Rob H. Sayer, vice President);
Box 1 Folder 1
Linville, J.H.;
Box 1 Folder 1
Louisville Bridge and Iron Company (J.M. Johnson, Engineer);
Box 1 Folder 1
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company (Hantfort?, Chief Engineer);
Box 1 Folder 1
McCormick, Henry;
Box 1 Folder 1
Michaelis?, O.E.;
Box 1 Folder 1
Michigan Central Railway Co. (J.D. Hawks, Chief Engineer);
Box 1 Folder 1
Missouri Pacific Railway Co. (R.M. Peck, Supt.)
Box 1 Folder 2
New Jersey Steel & Iron Co. (C.E. Hewitt)
Box 1 Folder 2
New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Co. (C.W. Buckley?, Engineer)
Box 1 Folder 2
New York, State of. Office of State Engineer and Surveyor (Arthur S.C. Wurtele?, Deputy State Eng. & Sur. John Bogart, State Engineer and Surveyor)
Box 1 Folder 2
Pencoyd Iron Works (Percival Roberts)
Box 1 Folder 2
Pennsylvania Railroad Company (W.H. Bron, Chief Engineer)
Box 1 Folder 2
Pennsylvania, University of. Course of Civil Engineering (L.M. Haupt Philadelphia Department of Public Works (Samuel L. Smedley, Chief Engineer and Surveyor)
Box 1 Folder 2
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Palmer C. Ricketts); includes five photos of wooden models of Waterford & Lansingburgh Bridge
Box 1 Folder 2
Rochester Bridge & Iron Works (Alfred M. Moss, Asst. Angineer)
Box 1 Folder 2
Schenectady, City of. (part of letter with description of bridge)
Box 1 Folder 2
Shunk, William Findlay
Box 1 Folder 2
Stephen Tilton & Co. (George Tilton)
Box 1 Folder 2
St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company (James Dun, Chf. Eng.)
Box 1 Folder 2
Thaner School of civil Engineer (Robert Fletcher)
Box 1 Folder 2
Thomson, G.H.
Box 1 Folder 2
Trowbridge, W.P.
Box 1 Folder 2
Union Bridge Company (Thos. J. Long)
Box 1 Folder 2
Union Pacific Railway Company (V.G. Bogue, Chief engineer)
Box 1 Folder 2
United States Military Academy at West Point. Library (Edward S. Holden, Librarian)
Box 1 Folder 2
Vose, Geo.
Box 1 Folder 2
Wabash Western Railroad Company (W.C. Lincoln?, Cheif Engineer)
Box 1 Folder 2
Watson, Robert M.
Box 1 Folder 2
Worthen, Wm. E.
Box 1 Folder 2
Outgoing Correspondence
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. (Onward Bates, Office of Engr. and Supt't, Bridges and Buildings)
Box 1 Folder 3
Correspondence among others
H. Bissell to Albert Cumier
Box 1 Folder 4
Series II. Miscellaneous
Notes
Box 1 Folder 5-6
Reports
Box 1 Folder 7
[blueprints:]
Box 2
"General design. Ohio River bridge. Henderson Ky." n.d., (2 copies?) no name, no markings
Size: ca. 44 × 7"
"General Design for Susquehanna River Bridge Philadelphia Branch B. & O. R.Rd. Submitted by Keystone Bridge Co. Pittsburg. Pa. Jan 17th. 8[?]4 [or 94?]"; lower right: initials: "W. B." [9 spans over the river, and spans over land; 11 piers. View: looking north toward side of bridge. no markings;
Size: 67 × 9"
Series II Drawings, Prints, Blueprints
Theo. Cooper Collection Bridge Plans Roll No. 7 8146 T36:7; A.386844
Mapcase A-3 BPa
Hollinger envelope containing label found with blueprints
Folder labels
Mapcase A-4 D-a
Print
Mapcase A-3 B-1
Dimensions: 40 × 26-1/2"
Print with 5 individual plans, 4 of which appear as separate pieces elsewhere in the collection. [3 copies]; No date; Includes: "Fink Combination Bridge." Printed at right top: "American Society of Civil Engineers, advance proof, Cooper on American railroad bridges." No markings; but one copy has several tears along folds and two red stains, one in the upper middle and one in the left upper middle. Red-stained copy has small square label on verso, near middle, lined in red with typed name: Berger.
Print
Mapcase A-3 B-2
Dimensions: ca. 40 × 26-1/2"
Print with 10 individual plans, 8 of which also appear as separate pieces elsewhere in the collection; the 2 others are: "Schuylkill Permanent Bridge, built by Timothy Palmer" and "Patent Bridge Colossus' across the River Schuylkill at Philadelphia built by Lewis Wernwag" Printed at right top: "American Society of Civil Engineers, advance proof, Cooper on American railroad bridges. Printed below drawing of Mohawk bridge at Schenectady, N.Y.: "Copy of drawing attached to original contract" No markings; but has small square label on verso, lined in red, with typed name: Berger. (c.) Several tears along folds, including red-stained tear (with water stain) in middle (c.);
[2 bridges]
Mapcase A-10 ENC-[7]
Dimensions: 36" × 30 1/2"
Top: "Columbia Bridge across the Schuylkill River near Peters' Island. Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad. Built about 1832" 2 views: elevation; 5 arches of 138 ft. span; 2 arches of 125 ft. span; x-sect.
Bottom: "Bridge across Salmon River Malone N.Y. Northern Railroad. 1849" 8 views/sections: elevation; x-sect.; part side elev. of truss; sect. through lower chords, etc.
[3 bridges, full side views]:
Mapcase A-3 BP-16
Dimensions: 22 × 20"
"Goelzsch-Thal Viaduct, over the Valley of the Goelzsch Creek, Saxony. Saxo-Bavarian R.R.. "Time of construction: 6 years [1845-1851]; "extreme height: 260 feet length over all: 1900 feet; cost: 7,000,000 Marks [$1,680,000]"
"Kinzua Viaduct, Penn'a. N.Y.L.E. & West. Coal & R.R. Co. [proposed]" <--[written in ink] "Time of construction & erection: 8 1/2 months extreme height: 302 feet length over all: 2052 feet cost: 275,000 dollars"
"Pecos River Viaduct (Texas - Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio Rail Road)" "extreme height: 302 1/2 feet length over all: 1662 feet"; lower rt., elliptical stamp: "The Phoenix Bridge Co. Apr 26 1888 Phoenixville, Pa.; lower ctr., square stamp: "The Phoenix Bridge Co. Phoenixville, Pa"
300 Feet Span. Combination Bridge over Yakima River 1886
Mapcase A-8 EB-11a
Dimensions: 32 1/2" × 30 1/2"
"300 Feet Span. Combination Bridge over Yakima River. Cascade Div'n, North'n Pacific R.R.. Washington. Buck & McNulty, Engineers. New York, 1886" [also on item: General scale: 3/8"=1'-0". Details: 3/4=1'-0"] 2 pieces, 11A 11B
Views: side elevation, including one end of bridge
300 Feet Span. Combination Bridge over Yakima River (Cont)
Mapcase A-7 EB-11b
Dimensions: 29 1/2" × 30 1/2"
Views: half plans of top chord and of bottom chord
400 Feet Span of the Ohio River Bridge at Louisville, Ky
Mapcase A-4 A-11
Dimensions: 22 × 17"
Lithograph on thin paper. Built by the Louisville Bridge & Iron Co.; upper left corner: "c.1"; lower right: "Patented by Albert Fink" lower rt., pencilled note: "Print the whole plate full size - can make two plates if desirable"
"Alternative of Class B, Cooper's specifications"
Mapcase A-4 D-10
Dimensions: 37-1/2 × 24"
Pencil drawing on browned paper, dated Decbr 6th [18]87; Theodore Cooper, consulting engineer; verso: untitled sketches of?; Marking in upper right corner: "10"
"The Bollman Patent Iron Suspension Truss Bridge"
Mapcase A-4 A-7
Dimensions: 19-1/2 × 13-1/2"
(4 copies)
Lithograph on thin paper; No date; "Built by Wendell Bollman, Patapsco Bridge & Iron Works Established 1858 at Canton Office: No. 8 South Gay St. Baltimore"; copy d (labelled "c6" at upper rt. & upper lft.) has pencilled instruction at far right
"Brandywine Creek Bridge" 1848
Mapcase A-11 ENC-[8]
Dimensions: 37 1/2" × 30 1/2"
N.Y. & E.R.R., Susquehanna Div. Sec. 199. Designed and built by Squire Whipple C E 1848. Scale one inch to three feet." Views: elevation(?); plans of upper and lower chords; sections;
Bridge over East Branch of Susquehanna River, 1849
Mapcase A-6 EB-7
Dimensions: 40 × 31"
Bridge over East Branch of Susquehanna River. Section 179. Susquehanna Division. N. Y. & E. R. R, 1849. Julius W. Adams, Resident engineer; Dimensions and other notes added in ink
Bridge over east branch of Susquehanna River, 1849. Resident engineer: Julius W. Adams
Mapcase A-16 D-23
Dimensions: 24 × 41-1/2 in.
Bridge over east branch of Susquehanna River. Section 179. Susquehanna Division. N.Y.&E.R.R., 1849. Resident engineer: Julius W. Adams; Drawing on tracing cloth; Pencilled in margin: Fig. 23; elsewhere on drawing: 4";
"Bridge over the Susquehanna River at Rockville"
Mapcase A-16 no #
Drawing on tracing cloth
Bridge over Tennessee River on the Memphis and Charleston R.R. at Decatur, Ala., 1866.
Mapcase A-3 B-8
Dimensions: 22-1/2 × 17-1/2"
"Bridge over Tennessee River on the Memphis and Charleston R.R. at Decatur, Ala. 1866. Erected by the Louisville Bridge and Iron Co. on Fink's Triangular Plan" [3 copies; one has gray streaks]: Lithograph on thin paper; lower left: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by Albert Fink in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Kentucky" lower middle: German & Bro. Lithg. Lou. Ky.; lower right: F. W. Vaughan Del.; incl. side view of entire bridge, across channel; side, top, bottom views and x-sect. of girder (?); diagrams of joints.
Bridge over Wheeling Creek on Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road, 1860
Mapcase A-3 B7
Dimensions: ca. 25-1/2" × 19-1/2"
"Bridge over Wheeling Creek on Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road" [Upper right:] "Plate II. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by Albert Fink"; bottom right: "Lith. of A. Hoen & Co. Balto"; Pencil markings: box drawn around "Lith. of.." at bottom right; small triangles in margin.
Bridges on the Baltimore and Ohio, and North Western Virginia Rail Road 1860
Mapcase A-3 B-10
Dimensions: ca. 25-1/2 × 19-1/2"
"Bridges on the Baltimore and Ohio, and North Western Virginia Rail Road; on the Plan Patented by Albert Fink. [At upper right] "Plate L. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860..." [No bridges named, but side views & plans of apparently 6 different bridges] bottom ctr.: "Lith of A. Hoen & Co. Balt" Pencil markings: at top left and middle left, "C10"; at lower left, "only this" (with arrows); at lower right, "only this" and "Reproduce only this lower.." [paper badly torn here]
Bridges on the North Western Va. and Louisville and Nashville R.R. 1860
Mapcase A-3 B-9
Dimensions: ca. 25 × 19-1/2"
"Bridges on the North Western Va. and Louisville and Nashville R.R. on the plan patented by Albert Fink" [Upper right:] "Plate IIII. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by Albert Fink.."; at bottom: "Lith. A. Hoen & Co. Balto. On North Western Virginia: Tigarts Valley Br. [a Bollman patent?] Simpsons Creek Br. Middle Island Creek Br. [Bollman?]On Louisville & Nashville: Barren River Br. [Bollman?] Sulphur Fork Br. [Bollman?]; No markings; gray-brown stains at upper right and upper middle; chunk missing at upper left; top edge creased and torn
"Bro over Lilandsosen vel Bulken"
Mapcase A-3 BP-14
Dimensions: ca. 28 × 8-1/2"
Blueprint [Danish or Norwegian. Measurements given in meters]; no date; No engineer or other name listed; Markings in black ink (mostly consisting of measurements), including "Railroad" along left side and "Scale 1/100" at top
Cascade-Glen Arch. 275 ft. Span
Cascade-Glen Arch. 275 ft. Span (12a) 1848
Mapcase A-7 EB-12a
Dimensions: 31 1/2" × 30 1/2";
"Cascade-Glen Arch. 275 ft. Span. Delaware Division N.Y. & E.R.R., 1848. Designed by Julius W. Adams Resident Engineer (1893 Past President & Honorary Member Am. Soc. C.E.)" 2 pieces, 12A, 12B. Complete side view; additional plans & diagrams
Cascade-Glen Arch. 275 ft. Span (12b) 1848
Mapcase A-7 EB-12b
Dimensions: 23" × 30 1/2"
Scale: 1/8 in.=1ft.
Cascade Glen Arch 1848
Mapcase A-16 D-24
Dimensions: 24 × 41-1/2 in.
"Cascade Glen arch, Delaware Division, NY & E.R.R.. Built 1848. Engineer Julius W. Adams." Drawing on tracing cloth.; Pencilled notation at bottom: "Fig. 21"
Channel Span: Bridge No. 30
Mapcase A-3 BP-8
Dimensions: 19 × 5"
"Channel Span: Bridge No. 30- P.C. & St. L. Ry. - Plan of Chord Bars" [Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway, now Penn. RR]; [Dec. 1888? - see BP-9]
Channel Span of Bridge 30 Dec. 4th. '88
Mapcase A-3 BP-9
Dimensions: 38 × 17-1/2"
"Channel Span of Bridge 30: P.C. & St. L. Ry. Chief Engineers Office Dec. 4th. '88" incl.: "Truss Diagram"; details of side & end views of truss; "Table of Strains..."
Channel Span Steubenville Bridge
Mapcase A-12 ENC-[12]
Dimensions: 40 1/2" × 30 1/2"
"Channel Span Steubenville Bridge. Built 1863-64. Designed by J.H. Linville C.E" Views: elevation of truss [type? Whipple?]; details of side view of end of bridge; half x-sect.;
Chord Details of Gwynn's Falls Bridge on Washn Line
Mapcase A-3 E-3
Dimensions: 38 × 24-1/2"
"Chord Details of Gwynn's Falls Bridge on Washn Line B. & P. R. R. Long Span" no. stamped at bottom: "11017"
Connecticut River Railroad Co., Willimansett bridge Jan. 29th, 1883
Mapcase A-3 BP-4
Dimensions: ca. 24-1/2 × 14-1/2"
"Connecticut River Railroad Co., Willimansett bridge. Ties and guards" [At upper right:] "Plan A" Drawing on blueprint paper, dated Jan. 29th, 1883; John E. Cheney, Con. engineer; no markings;
Cumberland River Bridge
Mapcase A-3 B6
Dimensions: 22-1/2 × 17-1/2"
>"Cumberland River Bridge L. & N. R. R. Nashville Tenn" Lithograph on (tracing?) paper; n.d.; lower middle: "German & Bro.; Lith. Louisville, Ky"; lower right: "J. H. Pearson Del"; includes side view of entire bridge; half side, partial top, etc., view of a span;; details of beams and pins;
David Lyman Viaduct
extent 5 pieces
David Lyman Viaduct (24a)
Mapcase A-16 ENC-[24a]
Dimensions: 28" × 31"
"David Lyman Viaduct, New Haven, Middletown and Willimantic RR 1869" [from verso]: "Details of Connections for Combination Viaduct. Built November 1869 By Clarke, Reeves & Co., Now: The Phoenix Bridge Co. Phoenixville, Pa" Lower rt.: "J.J.E. Wolffe, 1893.
David Lyman Viaduct (24b)
Mapcase A-16 ENC-[24b]
Dimensions: 24" × 31"
Leftmost piece; shows "transverse sections" of colums;
David Lyman Viaduct (24x) 1869
Mapcase A-16 ENC-[24x]
Dimensions: 40 1/2 × 31
"General Plan David Lyman Viaduct, New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic RR Built by The Phoenix Bridge Co. Phoenixville Pa. 1869. General elevation, Horizontal section at AB;
David Lyman Viaduct (24y) 1869
Mapcase A-16 ENC-[24y]
Dimensions: 24" × 25 1/2"
"General Plan David Lyman Viaduct, New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic RR Built by The Phoenix Bridge Co. Phoenixville Pa. 1869." "Top view"; General elevation, Horizontal section at AB;
David Lyman Viaduct (24z) 1869
Mapcase A-16 ENC-[24z]
Size; 24" × 31"
"General Plan David Lyman Viaduct, New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic RR Built by The Phoenix Bridge Co. Phoenixville Pa. 1869." General elevation, Horizontal section at AB
Details of Compression Memb'rs Gwynn's Falls Bridge
Mapcase A-3 E-4
Dimensions: 38-1/2 × 24"
"Details of Compression Memb'rs Gwynn's Falls Bridge on Washn Line B. & P. R. R" [members A-C]; no. stamped at bottom: "11019";
Details of Compression Memb'rs Gwynn's Falls Bridge
Mapcase A-3 E-5
Dimensions: 37 × 24-1/2"
"Details of Compression Memb'rs Gwynn's Falls Bridge on Washn Line B. & P. R. R" [members D-G]; no. stamped at bottom: "11020";
Details of end posts Spans
Mapcase A-3 BP-10
16-1/2 × 18-1/2"
"Details of end posts Spans 1-2-3 & 5 to 8 - Steubenville bridge" No date [but prob. 1863-64, J.H. Linville];
Details of Fink Triangular truss
Mapcase A-3 B-15
Size:
[formerly quarantined, QB-1]; incl. diagrams of castings(?), trussed bars, brace shoe; n.d.;
Details of Floorsystem Gwynn's Falls Bridge
Mapcase A-3 E-6
Dimensions: 37-1/2 × 25-1/2"
"Details of Floorsystem Gwynn's Falls Bridge on Washn Line B. & P. R. R"; no. stamped at bottom: "11022"
"Details of Intersections Gwynn's Falls Bridge on Washn Line B. & P. R. R. Long Span"
Mapcase A-3 E-2
Dimensions: 38-1/2 × 25"
"Details of Intersections Gwynn's Falls Bridge on Washn Line B. & P. R. R. Long Span"; no. stamped at bottom: "11015"; on verso, in pencil: "Gwynn's Falls Bridge Washington Line, B & P. R. R.. Wilson Brothers & Co"
"Diagram and Details of Struts. Gwynn's Falls Bridge on Washn Line B. & P. R. R"
Mapcase A-3 E-1
Dimensions: 38 × 24-1/2"
"Diagram and Details of Struts. Gwynn's Falls Bridge on Washn Line B. & P. R. R"; no. stamped at bottom: "11013"
Earliest Boiler Plate Girder Bridge, 1846-47
Mapcase A-13 ENC-[14]
Dimensions: 30 1/2" × 26"
"Earliest Boiler Plate Girder Bridge as originally erected on the Baltimore & Susquehanna Railroad now the Northern Central Railway, 1846-47 By its designer James Milholland of Baltimore MD"; 6 sections (i.e. views); w. note: "above boiler plate girders, as arranged and used for 'double-track' by the Northern Central Railway Company, from years 1864 to 1882"
Earliest Boiler Plate Girder Bridge, 1846-47
Mapcase A-3 BP-12
Dimensions: 28 × 22"
"Earliest Boiler Plate Girder Bridge as originally erected on the Baltimore & Susquehanna Railroad now the Northern Central Railway 1846-47 by its designer James Millholland of Baltimore M.D"; incl. note: "Above boiler plate girders, as arranged and used for `double-track' by the Northern Central Railway Company, from years 1864 to 1882"
"First Example Post's Truss Bridge. South Washingtonville, N.Y. Newburgh Branch, N.Y. & E.R.R.. Built by S.S. Post 1865 "
Mapcase A-10 ENC-[5]
Dimensions: 37 1/2" × 30 1/2"
Views: elevation of truss; top laterals, cross-sxn., etc.
Harper's Ferry Bridge, 1836
Mapcase A-6 EB-9.2
Dimensions: 41 1/2" × 30 1/2"
[on verso:] "Harper's Ferry Bridge B. & O. R.R.. Designed by B.H. Latrobe. Built by Lewis Wernwag, 1836; "Views: General plan [crosses both Potomac R. and Chesapeake & Ohio Canal]; elevation of truss; cross-sections; plans; other details; verso: the title, plus circular stamp of Standard Sun Printing Co.
Harper's Ferry Bridge. Winchester Span., 1852
Mapcase A-12 EB-9.1
Dimensions: 17" × 26"
"Harper's Ferry Bridge. Winchester Span. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Designed by Wendel Bollman. Built 1852"; Views: Details of the trussing of floorbeams; post plate; suspender washer;
General Plan of Blue River Bridge
Mapcase A-4 A-12
"General Plan of Blue River Bridge. J.M. & I.R.R" (2 copies) [in Indiana - where?] [Jeffersonville, Madison, & Indianapolis R.R.] Photo-lithograph on thin paper; March 17, 1871; Louisville Bridge & Iron Co. side, bottom and x-sect. views of girders; also, "joint at foot of trussed braces" lower right: Am. Photo-Lithographic Co. N.Y. (Osborne's process.) Size: 17-1/2 × 11-1/2" copy b (labelled "c.3" at upper right) has pencilled direction about the print) "make this 7-1/2 inches" at far rt.
"Highway Bridge Over the Hudson River Between Waterford and Lansingburgh";
Mapcase A-4 D-9
Dimensions: ca. 42-1/2 × 18-1/2"
No date marked, but known to be 1804. Built by Theodore Burr; Pencil markings: "C13" (at top); "Half size" (along bottom); "Cooper on bridges" (along left side);
"Highway bridge over the Hudson River between Waterford and Lansingburgh"
Mapcase A-4 A-2
Dimensions: 42-1/2 × 18-1/2"
No date; apparently 2 copies; Built by Theodore Burr; Pencil marking at upper right of one copy: 1804;
"Highway Bridge (covered) over the Delaware River at Easton, Pa"
Mapcase A-4 D-6
[2 pieces]; Pencil drawing on yellowed paper; No date; no name; Piece a: "Elevation of lst half of lst. Truss"; "the Bridge has 3 Spans" [dimension of each span given]; "Each Span has two side trusses and the lower part of a third - at the center. Each pier is 36 ft across at the top" other markings, incl. dimensions; Size: 40-1/2 × 13-1/2" Piece b: "Side View of the Approach and the lst half of lst span; also front view and section
"Highway bridge over the river Delaware at Easton, Pa" [Other drawing below it]: "Schuylkill permanent bridge"
Mapcase A-4 A-1
Dimensions: 25-1/2 × 14"
No date; [Both:] Built by Timothy Palmer; No markings; Size: 25 × 27-1/2" [copy]: "Highway bridge over the river Delaware at Easton, Pa" No date; Built by Timothy Palmer; no markings;
"Highway bridge over the river Delaware at Easton, Pa" [drawing] In black and red; no date; Built by Timothy Palmer; Pencil markings:
Mapcase A-4 D-5
Dimensions: 27-1/2 × 12-1/2"
"Cooper on Bridges" (along left side); "C2" (at top corners); "make this 4 inches" (along right side);
"Howe Truss Bridge" (copy 1)
Mapcase A-4 A-6
Dimensions: 26 × 13-1/2"
Lithograph (or ink drawing?) on heavy paper; No date - but could not be earlier than 1840, when Howe patented it;
"Howe Truss Bridge" (copy 2)
Mapcase A-4 A-5
Dimensions: 26 × 13-1/2"
Lithograph (or ink drawing?) on heavy paper; No date - but could not be earlier than 1840, when Howe patented it;
"Howe truss bridge";
Mapcase A-4 D-17
Dimensions: 26 × 13-1/2"
[designed by William Howe; wooden]; No date [but must be 1840 or after, bec. Howe patented it in 1840]; No builder or engineer given; no other names listed. Pencil markings: "Half" (at top); "Half size" (right bottom); "Full" (middle top, referring to figure outlined with pencilled dotted line); "Full size" (left bottom); "Cooper on bridges" (along left side).
"Howe Truss Bridge at Salisbury, Conn. Built in 1870. By R.F. Hawkins. 130 ft. span. Presented by R.F. Hawkins' Iron Works. Springfield, Mass. Successors to Wm. Howe, Stone & Harris and Harris & Hawkins"
Mapcase A-10 ENC-[1]
Dimensions: 37" × 30 1/2"
7 labelled sectional views: elevation; bottom plan; top plan; cross section; details, cast block; oak clamp
"Howe Truss Bridge over the Connecticut River, Springfield, Mass. Built about 1838 by Wm. Howe. Presented by R.F. Hawkins' Iron Works Springfield, Mass. Successors to Wm. Howe, Stone & Harris and Harris & Hawkins"
Mapcase A-10 ENC-[2]
Dimensions: 34" × 30 1/2"
Blueprint; 7 views: elevation; cross-section; details of bottom chord; longitudinal section; plan showing bottom chord; details of top chord; top plan
"Howe Truss Bridge over the Connecticut River, Springfield, Mass. Built about 1838 by Wm. Howe. Presented by R.F. Hawkins' Iron Works Springfield, Mass. Successors to Wm. Howe, Stone & Harris and Harris & Hawkins"
Mapcase A-11 ENC-[2a]
Dimensions: 38 1/2" × 30 1/2"
Print; 7 views: elevation; cross-section; details of bottom chord; longitudinal section; plan showing bottom chord; details of top chord; top plan. Lower rt.: "Pontrichet's improved sunprint"
"Iron Bridge Over the Monongahela River on the Baltimore & Ohio R.Rd"
Mapcase A-4 A-8
Dimensions: 24 × 19"
Constructed 1851-2 [wrought or cast iron?]; B.H. Latrobe, chief engineer; designed and patented by Albert Fink, assistant engineer; pencil markings in top corners: "C7"; at bottom right: "Print the whole of this"; "half size";
"Iron Howe Truss Bridge. Boston & Providence R.R.. Built by Stone & Harris, Springfield, Mass., 1849. Scale: 1/2in.=1FT"
Mapcase A-11 ENC-[3]
Dimensions: 37 1/2" × 30"
Views: elevation of truss; cross-section; half plan; sections of brace and of top chord; double track;
Jordan Creek Viaduct
"General Plan of the Jordan Creek Viaduct, for the Catasauqua, & Fogelsville R.R. Designed constructed & erected by F.C. Lowthorp. Built 1856 Rebuilt 1889"
Built 1856; rebuilt 1889; apparently, 5 pieces represent the 1856 bridge, and their sequence is: [23]A; [23]B; [23]C; [23]D; [23]E apparently, 2 pieces represent the 1889 bridge, and their provisional sequence is: [23]X --> [23]Y Left end(?) of longitudinal view of the bridge; also incl. plan of track;
General Plan of the Jordan Creek Viaduct
Mapcase A-14 ENC-[23a]
Dimensions: 20-1/2 × 31-1/2"
General Plan of the Jordan Creek Viaduct
Mapcase A-15 ENC-[23b]
Dimensions: 39-1/2 × 31-1/2"
General Plan of the Jordan Creek Viaduct
Mapcase A-14 ENC-[23c]
Dimensions: 22 × 31"
General Plan of the Jordan Creek Viaduct
Mapcase A-14 ENC-[23d]
Dimensions: 15-1/2 × 31"
Cross-section
"General Plan of the Jordan Creek Viaduct"
Mapcase A-15 ENC-[23e]
Dimensions: 29 × 31-1/2"
apparently the right end of the plan; at lower right corner is signature: "Wm. C. Bolgiano 1893" shows plan and side (or front?) view of base; shows end and side view (?) of vertical members;
"General Plan of the Jordan Creek Viaduct" 1889
Mapcase A-15 ENC-[23X]
Dimensions: 40-1/2 × 28"
Apparently the left end piece of the print, because border of picture is closed
"General Plan of the Jordan Creek Viaduct"
Mapcase A-15 ENC-[23y]
Dimensions: 37 × 31"
"General Plan of the Jordan Creek Viaduct"
Mapcase A-15 ENC-[23z]
Dimensions: 40 1/2 × 28"
Two longitudinal views of Jordan Creek Viaduct: top: "built 1856" bottom: "built 1889"; at lower rt. corner: "Wm. C. Bolgiano 1893"; stamp: "Pontrichet's improved sunprint"
"Kentucky River Bridge. Cincinnati Southern Railway. Designed and built by C. Shaler Smith, 1876-1877 "
Mapcase A-9 EB-16a
2 pieces, 16A 16B
Dimensions: 24 1/2" × 30 1/2";
["Kentucky River Bridge. Cincinnati Southern Railway...Cont.]
Mapcase A-9 EB-16b
Dimensions: 16B: 25 1/2" × 30 1/2"
verso: the title, plus circular stamp of Standard Sun Printing Co.
"The Keystone Bridge Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., manufacturers of Linville and Piper patent wrought iron bridges. Patented Jan. 14th 1862 and Oct. 31st 1865. Especially adapted to Rail Road Traffic for spans of 100 to 400 feet"
Mapcase A-3 B-3
Dimensions: 43 × 29"
No engineer or builder given, lithographer: Krebs & Bro. lith. Pittsburgh. Views: lower & upper chords; front elevation (showing insignia at center of arch: "Linville & Piper Patent 1868"); side elevation, etc. Pencil markings on verso: "250," "125/360," "1/3"; badly creased and frayed at edges, with hole in top middle and top corners torn away.
[Kinzua Viaduct. 3 pieces]
Mapcase A-16 ENC-[25a]
Dimensions: 31" × 41"
"General Plan Kinzua Viaduct N.Y.L.E. & W.RR. designed & built by the Phoenix Bridge Co. Phoenixville, Pa. 1882" entire longitudinal view of viaduct plus train;
[Kinzua Viaduct, Cont.]
Mapcase A-16 ENC-[25b]
Dimensions: 31" × 40"
Printed label on verso.
[Kinzua Viaduct, Cont.] "Kinzua Viaduct Details of Connections. Design. and built by the Phenix [sic] Bridge Comp. Phoenixville, Pa"
Mapcase A-16 ENC-[25x]
Dimensions: 31" × 40"
"Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge Over the River at Philadelphia. Invented by Lewis Wernwag - Executed by him & Joseph Johnson. General Finish by R. Mills Esq"
Mapcase A-3 B-13
Dimensions: 24 × 19-1/2"
view of complete, covered bridge: "Drawn & Aquatinted by W. Strickland Arch" General floor plan (?) of bridge (top view?); no dimensions or other notations: "W Kneass sc"
"Lehigh Coal and Navigation Cos. Rail Road Bridge at Turn hole. Broken April 1868 "
Mapcase A-4 D-18
Dimensions: ca. 36 × 20"
Dated "Octb. 29th 1883" Signed "A.L" at bottom right; lower drawing shows site of break: broken section of floor gone, cables (?) flying loose. No markings
"Little Juniata Bridge, No. 8, Pensylvania [sic] Railroad. Designed by J.H. Linville. 1864. 2 deck spans 86-6 1/2" clear"
Mapcase A-11 ENC-[6]
Dimensions: 39 1/2" × 30 1/2"
Views: elevation of truss; enlarged view of one panel of of truss; cross-section; other details; lower rt.: "Pontrichet improved sunprint"
"Long's Truss Bridge, 1833 "
Mapcase A-13 ENC-[15]
Dimensions: 36 1/2" × 30 1/2'
double track; 6 separate views: side view of truss; plan (?) of truss; x-sect.; "post"; "main brace"; "counter brace"; verso: the title, plus circular stamp of Standard Sun Printing Co.;
["Long's Truss Bridge 1837 "]
Mapcase A-4 D-16
Dimensions: 35-1/2 × 24"
single track; pen & ink drawing tracing paper; dust-stained; no title, but identical to encaps. print [16]; 6 views: side of truss; plan; x-sect.; "post", "main brace"; "counter brace"; pencilled notation at bottom: "Fig. 16"; also pencilled dimension mark at bottom: 4";
"Long's Truss Bridge, 1837 "
Mapcase A-13 ENC-[16]
Dimensions: 37 1/2" × 30 1/2"
single track; 6 views correspond to those in ENC-[15]; at lower right: Scale: 1/4in.=1ft.; verso: as in ENC-[15];
Lowthorp Truss Bridge. Designed and patented by F.C. Lowthorp Trenton, N.J"
Mapcase A-11 ENC-[9]
Dimensions: 40 1/2" × 30 1/2"
2 views: side of truss; plan (the track); verso has circular Standard Sun Printing Co. stamp;
"McCallum Truss Bridge, Lanesboro N.Y.&E.R.R" Built 1851 "
Mapcase A-16 D-25
Dimensions: ca. 24 × 35-1/2 in.
[Drawing on tracing cloth] No engineer given. Pencilled in margin: Fig. 24.
"McCallum Truss Bridge. Lanesboro. N.Y. & E.R.R.. Clear span 190 ft. Length of trusses 200 ft. out to out. Built 1851. Sclae: 1/4in.=1ft"
Mapcase A-11 ENC-[11]