File:DETAIL OF BUILDER'S PLATE- 'SUPERSTRUCTURE BUILT BY STROBEL STEEL CONSTRUCTION CO., CHICAGO, ILL., 1913, SUBSTRUCTURE BUILT BY FITZSIMONS and CONNELL DandD CO., CHICAGO, ILL.' HAER ILL, 16-CHIG, 125-2.tif

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DETAIL OF BUILDER'S PLATE- 'SUPERSTRUCTURE BUILT BY STROBEL STEEL CONSTRUCTION CO., CHICAGO, ILL., 1913, SUBSTRUCTURE BUILT BY FITZSIMONS and CONNELL DandD CO., CHICAGO, ILL.' - Chicago River Bascule Bridge, Grand Avenue, Spanning North Branch Chicago River at Grand Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
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Strobel Steel Construction Company; Fitzsimons and Connell Dock and Dredge Company; Fitzsimons, Gray, transmitter; Fitzsimons, Gray, historian
Depicted place Illinois; Cook County; Chicago
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER ILL, 16-CHIG, 125-2
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Grand Avenue Bridge represents the "second generation" of the Chicago bascule bridge with improvements executed in the design of the counterweights, a new rack-and-pinion assembly (namely, the use of an internal rack, instead of an external rack that extended along the truss superstructure's upper chords), and a steel pony truss superstructure.
  • Survey number: HAER IL-139
  • Building/structure dates: 1913 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/il0761.photos.048668p
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Object location41° 51′ 00″ N, 87° 39′ 00″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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