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FOOTNOTES

ILLUSTRATIVE MATERIAL FOR BRIDGE BOOK

Union Bridge (1874-75)

Photographs in photographic archives of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh:

B 10 - Point Portal of Union Bridge. Several photos showing both Union and first Point Bridge; of which the best are the following: P 1608 (c. 1895).

A l2O (taken from Mt. Washington c. 1896).

B 23 (c. 1900) photo of river steamer trying to pass beneath Union Bridge.

A 307 (c. 1900 - from files of U.S. Army Engineering Corps.)

Photograph of the interior of Union Bridge in White and von Bernewitz Bridges of Pittsburgh, p. 47.

Point Bridge I (1875-77)

Elevation and plan of bridge in Tyrell History of Bridge Engineering, p. 235, fig. 115.

Two pages of engraved plates of drawings for bridge in Engineering News III (8 July, 1876) p. 22O, ff. This is the best engineering diagram of the structure. Should by all means be reproduced.

Wood engraving of bridge as opened in 1877 in Scientific American (11 September, 1880). This is also in the Carnegie Library Photo Archive - No. 1433.

Photo taken from hillside just above bridge portal in Pittsburgh Illustrated (1889) - unpaged. This is Perhaps best extant photo from this angle.

Carnegie photo archive - see above under Union Bridge. There is also an excellent photo of structure taken from the Pittsburgh shore - L 1363. This is perhaps the best early photo (c. 1892).

Photo of both old and new Point Bridge side by side in White and von Bernewitz. The Bridges of Pittsburgh, p. 33.

Manchester Bridge (1911-1915)

Photo as nearing completion in N. S. Sprague "Highway Bridges of the City of Pittsburgh" in Journal of the Engineers' Society of Pennsylvania, 6:11 (November, 1914, pp. 291-297. Photo on p. 294.

Two photos of structure in White and von Bernewitz, The Bridges of Pittsburgh - p. 12 - sculptured portal, p. 47 - over-all view.

Photos of ornamental portals of bridge in Engineering News 76:26 (28 December, 1916). pp. 1242-1243

Photo of interior of bridge taken in September 1950 in Carnegie Photo Archive - A 1012.

Photo of Point in 1947 showing both Manchester and Point II bridges in Carnegie Photo Archive - L 1436.

Point Bridge II (1925-1927)

Preliminary sketch - Charette 6 (June, 1925) frontispiece.

Final drawing - Charette 5:10 (October, 1925). frontispiece.

Photo of interior in Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 1 November 1969. An excellent photo made from a poster by James Lesko.

There are a number of good photos of the demolition of both the Manchester and Point II bridges in the Pittsburgh newspaper of 1970.

Brady Street (South Twenty-Second Street) Bridge (1895-1896)

Elevation drawing in Tyrell, History of Bridge Engineering, p. 334, fig. 238.

Photo in White and von Bernewitz, The Bridges of Pittsburgh, p. 38

Wood engraving (large cut) of entire bridge and smaller one of ornamented north portal in Pittsburgh Press of 25 March 1896.

Drawing of bridge by W. G. Walter in the Pittsburgh Bulletin 30:4 (1 December, 1894), p. 7

Photo of bridge taken from hillside above Soho with piers of the new bridge in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 6 August, 1970.

Views of the Point before construction of bridges - and after.

Photographs in Carnegie Library photo archive

Views of the Point from an engraving after a water color made in 1817 by Mrs. C. F. Gibson of Philadelphia - L 1296

View taken from Mt. Washington in 1849.

A colored lithograph by Tappan and Bradford after a contemporary drawing by B. F. Smith - A 505

Also the same view from an engraving in the Pennsylvania Room of Carnegie Library - L 157.

View in 1850, used as a letterhead - B 24

View taken from Gleason's Pictorial for 30 April, 1853 Wood engraving, very tenebrous and Romantic - L 224.

View in 1923, photograph, showing both Manchester and Point II bridges - L 1434

View in 1964, Photograph, showing both sets of bridges Manchester and Point II as well as the new Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt bridges. - P 1646

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