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Construction Photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge, 1933-1934
BANC PIC 1905.14251-.14284--PIC
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Collection Title: Construction Photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.14251-.14284--PIC
Extent:
1,066 photographic prints, black and white; 13 x 19 cm.
373 digital objects
Repository:
The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is available for use
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item],
Construction photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge, BANC PIC 1905.14251-.14284--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital Representations Available
Digital representations of selected
original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below.
Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were
copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and
the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.
Gift of Professor Keim, 1955.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a steel suspension bridge for vehicles and pedestrians extending from Fort Point in San Francisco
to Marin County over the San Francisco Bay. Its central span is 4,200 feet long and its 746-feet towers are the largest ever
built. The bridge was erected under the direction and plans of Joseph B. Strauss and opened in 1937.
(Source: Hart, James D.
A Companion to California. New York, Oxford University Press, 1978.)
The Golden Gate Bridge construction photographs were taken between 1933 and 1934. Some of the 2,054 photographs are stamped
"Gabriel Moulin Photo." The other photographers are unknown. The collection is a thorough documentation of every phase of
construction of the bridge, including excavation of sites, and building of the various components, such as access trestles,
caissons, abutments, anchorages, pylons, floor structures, approach spans, piers, towers, portals, viaducts, tunnels, and
the toll plaza. Many views show men at work, and the tools and equipment being used. Vantage points vary from the bridge structures,
from the water, Marin, San Francisco, and Sausalito.
The collection is arranged by subject. Each subject is treated as a series and given a consecutive call number in the range
1905.14251-.14284. The finding aid notes the series titles and number of photographs in each series.