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62nd Street Bridge

1963-08-20

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62nd Street Bridge
  • Title
  • 62nd Street Bridge
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B010.F09.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B010.F09.I01
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “Pittsburgh’s 62nd Street Bridge cited 8/20/63 by the American Institute of Steel construction as ‘the most beautiful steel bridge in its class opened to traffic in 1961’.” The 62nd Street Bridge, known officially as the Senator Robert D. Fleming Bridge, is a four-lane divided, steel subdivided Warren deck truss bridge that spans the Allegheny River. The length of the main channel is 370 feet with the deck at a height of 50 feet. This bridge replaced the old Sharpsburg Bridge and is the last numbered street in a grid, which began at the Point in downtown Pittsburgh and extends along the Allegheny River through the Strip District and Lawrenceville (Arsenal).
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Senator Robert D. Fleming Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    62nd Street Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Etna (Pa.)
    Bridges--Pennsylvania.
    Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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