Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Modjeski and Masters
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content: Modjeski and Masters Company Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1878 - 1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0976, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of approximately 13,000 "work-in-progress" photographs documenting Modjeski and later, Masters bridge construction. Images include black-and-white prints, negatives, slides, lantern slides, and transparencies  Many of the photographs are loose, but there are some bound albums.  The majority of photogtraphs are captioned and contain views of machinery, workers, aerial views, and streetscape scenes including buildings for major United States cities such as Philadelphia.  The photographs also document the testing of cable materials, views depicting approaches to bridges, railway yards, waterfront piers, landscape views, buildings, demolition of other structures, and blasting of stone.   Other loose materials found with the photographs include notes, correspondence, blueprints, and postcards. This series is arranged alphabetically by name of bridge.