File - - Fraser River Bridge, New Westminster, BC

[A crowd gathers to watch a span of the bridge being floated into place] [A crowd gathers to watch a span of the bridge being floated into place] [A crowd watches as a spread span is floated into place] [A group of workers pose during construction of the superstructure] [A group of workers pose during the construction of a spread span] [A group of workers pose during the construction of a spread span] [A group of workers pose on the superstructure] [A railway car decorated and lined with tables set for the luncheon of the official opening of th... [A span being floated into place] [A span of the bridge being floated into place] [A span ready for floating] [A span secured to two piers] [A spread span is floated into position] [A Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon Railway Company train crosses the bridge] [A view of the completed bridge] [An electric railway car next to a siding] [Construction of a spread span] [Construction of the bridge superstructure] [Construction of the bridge superstructure] [Consulting Engineers and Contractors for Substructure of the Fraser River Bridge] [Cooks, servers and others for the luncheon of the official opening of the bridge in front of a d... [Engineers and contractors at the bridge site] [Engineers and contractors gathered in the bridge camp] [Engineers in front of the Office of the Resident Engineer] [Men at work inside a construction office] [Men standing on the front of a locomotive on the bridge] [Snow covers the partially completed bridge] [Two men building a pier] Abutment Abutment "A" Blasting Pier 11 Center Line North Shore Center Line, South Shore Coffer-Dam Pier No. 2 Completing Masonry Pier No. 3 Completing Substructure Crib, Pier No. 5 Crib, Pier No. 5 Crib, Pier No. 6 Crib, Pier No. 9 Cutting Edge Pier 4 Cutting Edge Pier No. 4 Dredging Pier 11 Dredging Pier No. 2 Dredging Pier No. 3 Fleet Laid Up During High Water Fleet Laid Up During High Water Floating 380 Feet Span Floating One Half of Spread Span General View
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Fraser River Bridge, New Westminster, BC

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  • Photograph

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Compliments of Armstrong, Morrison and Company

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AM54-S4-1--

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  • 1902-1904 (Creation)

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2 albums (145 photographs) : silver gelatin prints : 19 x 24 cm or smaller

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Albums consist of photographs showing the construction of the Fraser River Bridge between 1902 and 1904. On page 1 of each album there is a construction information sheet naming the designer: Waddell and Hendrick Consulting Engineers; builders: Province of British Columbia; Contractors: Armstrong, Morrison and Balfour, and The Dominion Bridge Company; and structural, cost, material and river data.

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Album M-1 donated by W.C. Ditmars, Esq. (a member of the firm of Armstrong, Morrison and Company) in 1942. Album M-2 donated by William Powell in 1943.

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Items in Album M-1 have been assigned numbers in the range: M-1-1 to M-1-70. Items in Album M-2 have been assigned numbers in the range: M-2-1 to M-2-75

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The items in the 2 albums are identical except for M-1-48, M-2-48, M-2-57, M-2-58, M-2-67, M-2-69 and M-2-72 which are unique. With identical images the best quality printed was chosen to be scanned.

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  • Box: 173-B-07 fld 01
  • Box: 173-B-07 fld 02