A62.
La Guerre, Retour en Enfer.
Aug. 28, 1929. Putting the finishing touches on the steel towers from the De Laval Tower building.
Sept. 6, 1929. Looking west from the east approach. Steel castings for suporting the cables as they emerge from the anchorages, one of which with a ladder in it shows on the extreme left.
Oct. 24, 1929. Building the catwalks prior to construction of the main cables. On the near left hand walk a group of workmen may be seen constructing the walk which is ten feet wide. Photographed from Union Square.
Nov. 16, 1929. Building the Poughkeepsie Highway Bridge. Constructing the ten foot wide catwalks in preparation for building the main cables.
Nov. 21, 1929. On the north catwalk from a small bridge connecting the north and south catwalks. Left to right: Messrs. Hubbard, Spross, Hall and Scott.
Up Broadway from the Pacific Bank. Anthony’s building and sign center left. (Courtesy of Russell Norton.)
Up Broadway from the Pacific Bank. Sign for Anthony’s Gallery in view at the top of his 501 Broadway building. 2-cent tax stamp on verso.
Nov. 21, 1929. Catwalks on the central span from the west tower. The center of the span is very much beyond the optical center, it being exactly at the second cross bridge.
Feb. 28, 1930. Dismantling the overhead work at the east anchorage which was a part of the wire haulage system used in fabricating the cables. The last strand of 360 wires is not yet quite in place with the other strands.
Up Broadway from Between Grand and Broome Sts. Sign for Anthony’s Gallery in view at the top of his 501 Broadway building. 2-cent tax stamp on verso.
Up Broadway from Between Grand and Broome Sts. Sign for Anthony’s Gallery in view at the top of his 501 Broadway building. This view once belonged to Dr. George Beck who was notorious for writing in red ink on his views.
Feb. 28, 1930. Mr. Bone beside some spools of wire for use in building the main cables on the east approach. There is about 20 miles of wire on each spool.
March 9, 1930. Haulage machinery used for pulling the parallel wires back and forth in building the main cable.
March 15, 1930. Dutton lumber yard, Gas & Electric station and building the new gas holder which shows just above the bridge. From the east tower of the highway bridge.
March 15, 1930. Poughkeepsie railway bridge and ferry boats “Poughkeepsie” and “Governor Winthrop” from the catwalk.
March 15, 1930. The north cable saddle on top of the east tower. Left to right: Blanche Seaman, Master Baker and Mr. Hanson, Resident Engineer of the Modjeski & Moran.
Up Broadway from Between Grand and Broome Sts. Sign for Anthony’s Gallery in view at the top of his 501 Broadway building.