- FondsAM54 - Major Matthews collection
- SeriesS9 - First Narrows Bridge
- FileF1 - First Narrows Bridge Photographs Vol. 3
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- Item: CVA 265-45 - 4:30 a.m. All is in readiness for scow and tugs to haul four catwalk cables across First Narrows. Light dim. Photo taken with f/2 lens wide open at 20 seconds.
- Item: CVA 265-46 - 4:50 a.m. Five minutes later the four catwalk cables were secured on North Shore. "Fispa" is near scow that is hauling cables across.
- Item: CVA 265-47 - 5:23 a.m. Three of the eight-ton cables for catwalks have been raised 325 feet above tide mark. Distance between piers is 1550 feet.
- Item: CVA 265-18 - A diver swings into position - lifted by derrick and wire rope. Diver's air-line is being paid out by man on top of bank.
- Item: CVA 265-67 - All road-beds are erected. View from above cable anchorage on South Shore.
- Item: CVA 265-56 - Another view of the clamping of the 61 strands of one of the two suspension cables in catwalk at south end of Lions Gate Bridge.
- Item: CVA 265-48 - At 6:00 a.m. the catwalk cables (from one tower only) were secured. Exactly 6 months later the last of the 8 catwalk cables was taken down.
- Item: CVA 265-36 - At this time the steel work of the South tower was within two sections of top. Picture shows how "creeper" operates, rising with each section.
- Item: CVA 265-21 - Beginning of big rock fill at base of pier on North approach. Bridge joins this pier and the roadway rests on top of it.
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