Bridge Comparison: elevations and bridge sections drawing – Historic Print
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Bridge Comparison: elevations and bridge sections drawing
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This drawing sets side-by-side elevations and cross-sections of several bridge types, so it shows how engineers weighed one structural solution against another for the same roadway. Its comparative format suggests it was prepared as a design reference rather than a view of any single crossing. The Natchez Trace Parkway, which was built through the 1930s and into the 1940s, needed many small bridges over creeks and hollows, and designers generally favored reinforced concrete spans faced with local stone to suit the rural Mississippi and Tennessee landscape. Drawings like this one record those choices and are useful for seeing how the parkway's structures were planned.
| Original scan | 14,458 × 9,810 px · prints to 48 × 33 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 00013a |
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