Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Highlights: First Over Glendale Bridge 2016

Here's some highlights from my Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation of the First Street Viaduct over Glendale Boulevard from October, 2016. These are scans of the large format 5×7 film that were sent to the National Park Service Heritage Documentation Program for inclusion in the HAER collection*.

This record is HAER-CA-2343 and the scope was 39 photographs.

HAER-CA-2443-1    Context view from 5th floor rooftop north side of bridge with Los Angeles downtown skyline in background. Camera height 5′, facing southeast.

HAER-CA-2443-21    Left side of two-part panorama of West Second Street westbound under bridge. Camera height 5′, facing north-northwest.

HAER-CA-2443-35    Substructure of main arch over Glendale Boulevard with 12′ scale marked in tenths on pillar. Camera height 5′, facing northwest.

HAER-CA-2443-10  Oblique of southwest corner of bridge. Camera height 5′, facing east.

HAER-CA-2443-12   Oblique of west bridge abutment from south side. Camera height 5′, facing northwest.

HAER-CA-2443-14   Part two of an eight-part sectional panorama of south side of bridge. West abutment wall. Camera height 6′, facing north-northeast.

HAER-CA-2443-39  Detail of decoration at base of lamppost in center of abutment at southeast corner of bridge. Camera height 7′, facing northeast.

Sample of a Historic American Engineering Record digital mount card printed on an Epson P600 pigment printer formatted to 5×7 size..

*Sometimes it takes a while for these HABS/HAER documentations to be made public, but when they are, they are accessible at the Library of Congress website. Often the images in the HABS, HAER and HALS collections take years to be digitized even though photographers send in scans and prints with their large format film.