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62nd Street Bridge
1963-08-20
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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
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