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Title
Silver
Bridge
photograph
Subject
Bridges--Ohio River
Kanauga (Ohio)
Gallipolis (Ohio)
United States. Work Progress Administration
Disasters--West Virginia--Point Pleasant--History--20th century--Pictorial works
United States. Work Progress Administration
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Kanauga (Ohio)
Gallia County (Ohio)
Description
This
photograph
shows
a
view
of the
Silver
Bridge
,
which
crossed
over
the
Ohio
River
,
connecting
Point
Pleasant
,
West
Virginia
, and
Kanauga
,
Ohio
,
via
U.S
.
Route
35
.
Built
in
1928
for
1928
for
$1.2
million
, the
2,235-foot
,
two-way
vehicular
bridge
was the
first
of its
design
in
America
and the
second
in the
world
.
It
was
suspended
on
heat-treated
eye-bar
chains
rather
than
woven-wire
cable
.
Aluminum
paint
gave
the
bridge
its
silver
color
and
thus
its
name
.
(It
was the
first
bridge
in the
world
to be
painted
with
aluminum
paint.)
On
Dec
.
16
,
1967
, the
bridge
collapsed
during
the
afternoon
rush-hour
,
plunging
vehicles
and their
occupants
into the
Ohio
River
.
Forty-six
people
died
.
Immediate
cause
of the
bridge
failure
was a
defect
in
one
of the
eyebars
that
caused
it
to
break
and its
joint
to
fail
,
disrupting
the
entire
structure's
equilibrium
.
Construction
of its
replacement
, the
Silver
Memorial
Bridge
,
began
in
1968
. The
Silver
Memorial
Bridge
,
which
connects
Galllipolis
,
Ohio
, and
Henderson
,
West
Virginia
,
is
located
about
a
mile
south
of the
old
bridge's
location
.
It
opened
to the
public
on
Dec
.
15
,
1969
, the
second
anniversary
of the
disaster
. This
image
of the
Silver
Bridge
was
among
the
photographs
produced
by the
Federal
Works
Progress
Administration
(WPA)
between
1935
and
1943
.
Creator
Works Progress Administration
Date of Original
ca.
1935-1943
Collection
Works
Progress
Administration
,
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
;
Box
1
,
Folder
17
Format
Picture
;
Black-and-white
photograph
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
AL06387.tif
Image Height
4201
Image Width
4201
File Size
37424300 Bytes
Notes
Copyright
Notes
:
Government
record.
;
Cataloged
:
Yes
Date created
2011-08-05
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