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Bridges & Dams William Reese Company AMERICANA • RARE BOOKS • LITERATURE AMERICAN ART • PHOTOGRAPHY ______________________________ 409 TEMPLE STREET NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT 06511 (203) 789-8081 FAX (203) 865-7653 [email protected] Bridges & Dams How the West Was Built: A Mining and Electrical Engineer in Colorado and California 1. Armington, Howard C.: [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF ENGINEER HOWARD C. ARMINGTON, DOCUMENTING HIS PARTICIPATION IN MASSIVE UTILITY PROJECTS IN COLORADO AND MINING EF- FORTS AND RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION IN CALIFORNIA IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY]. [Various places in Colorado and California, as described below. ca. 1907-1913]. 406 photographs (395 silver prints, eleven cyanotypes) ranging in size from 2½ x 4 to 5 x 7 inches, one photo 9½ x 13 inches. All but six photos mounted in album. Oblong folio. Textured leather boards, secured by brads. Some chipping and wear to boards; minor fading and creasing to a few photos, but overall very well-preserved. Very good. A fascinating album documenting the early career of mining and civil engineer Howard C. Armington (1884-1966). The photographs in this album record several projects that Armington worked on early in his career, including electrification projects in Colorado, and mining, railroad, and dam construction in California. The photographs that Armington compiled in this extensive album provide out- standing evidence of projects that created an infrastructure allowing for increased migration westward, and increasing exploitation of western resources. The album begins with a photo of Armington as a student and member of the Crucible Club (precursor to the Beta Theta Pi fraternity) at the Colorado School of Mines (1906-07), there are then about 100 photographs highlighting his work with the Central Colorado Power Company (1908-09) building the Shoshone Hydroelectric Plant Complex. Included are images of work progressing on the powerhouse and the dam, with a series of photographs of miners working on the adits (tunnels) for the project. The plant complex was designed to take advantage of the elevation drop through the central part of Glenwood Canyon by diverting water from the river just above Shoshone Falls. Eight adits were created in the canyon wall to allow work to proceed from both ends. When completed, the main tunnel was approximately 12,450 feet long and averaged thirteen feet high by seventeen feet wide. abandoned due to speculative over-expansion and increasing debt. Originally named Hedges, it was renamed Tumco in 1910 when The United Mines Company (i.e., T.U.M.Co.) attempted and failed to make a go of it. The album includes a small manually-constructed panorama of the operation made up of four photographs, and more than forty other images showing mining operations, the min- ing settlement, and people living in what is now a ghost town. Armington also married in 1911, and the photos suggest that his wife, Nona Ross Black, traveled with him to subsequent work sites. A group of more than seventy-five photos illustrate work on the Big Creek Railroad (1912), a standard gauge common carrier railroad that operated in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Fresno County. It was originally built to transport men and supplies to The next section features photos of reinforced concrete pipes being laid at Ned- the Big Creek Hydroelectric dam site for the Pacific Light and Power Company erland, Colorado for what is now known as Barker Dam and Reservoir and the (now Southern California Edison). The railroad photographs are followed by Kossler Reservoir. This is followed by over a dozen photos of the Western Ce- images related to the construction of the dam. The album also includes numer- ment Products Co. in Pueblo, Colorado, showing cement production operation ous photos of family and friends, and pictures from the International Irrigation and machinery including a crusher, furnace, curing sheds, and brick machines. Congress held in Pueblo in 1910. Finally, there are three larger cabinet cards: one of the Colorado School of Mines class of 1902 and two overhead shots of the In 1911, Armington became an engineer at Tumco in the Imperial Valley near the school; and then one larger image of the class on cardstock with a brief summary Arizona border. Tumco was one of the earliest gold mining areas in California, of Armington’s career on the verso. where gold was first discovered by Spanish colonists nearly two hundred years earlier as they moved north from Sonora, Mexico. By 1905, it had been completely A glimpse into the beginnings of the electrification of the West. $4000. built by the Public Works Administration, was designed to span a portion of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Jones Falls Valley; the concrete arch bridge still stands today, and currently spans Interstate 83 and Jones Falls. The present photographs date from March 5, 1936 to February 6, 1938, arranged in roughly reverse chronological order, and present a relatively complete photographic record of the project. The bridging process illustrated here begins with excavating, grading, and foundation work, and proceeds through building footings for piers and the piers themselves, setting temporary arches, underpinning, setting steel centers for the main spans, flooring, concreting, and facade work. There are numerous views offering different vantage points of the bridge, provid- ing a comprehensive picture of the bridge project, but also capturing local landmarks such as the pumping station, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the field offices of the construction managers, and more. Heavy construction machinery is visible throughout, including cranes, cement trucks, and excava- tors (one of which is emblazoned with the company name of “Potts & Callahan Contractors, Baltimore, Md.”). A few of the photographs clearly show African-American crewmen working on the bridge, especially at the excavation stage. The 29th Street Bridge was completed on December 4, 1937. A photograph here dated February 5, 1938 shows the completed bridge, and Building a Major Bridge in Baltimore, includes relevant statistics about the construction project on the verso. The Detailed in Construction Photographs 1335-foot bridge was built of reinforced concrete and stone, with “main arch spans of 232 feet,” a roadway forty feet wide, and seven-foot sidewalks on either 2. [Baltimore Photographica]: [ALBUM OF PROFESSIONALLY-PRODUCED side. The bridge was Public Works Administration Docket No. 1008-R-19, and PHOTOGRAPHS DETAILING CONSTRUCTION OF THE 29th STREET the total cost of the bridge came in at $601,414.02. The contract for the project BRIDGE IN BALTIMORE]. [Baltimore]: Leopold Photo, 1936-1938. Eighty- was awarded on December 26, 1935 to the aforementioned Potts & Callahan nine black-and-white photographs, each approximately 8 x 9½ inches, most dated Contracting Company. Below the statistical information is a small paper label in the negative. Each photograph linen-backed and all with typed captions on belonging to George Cobb, Highways Engineer for the Bureau of Highways in the verso. Oblong quarto. Contemporary plain brown paper binder, titled in ink Baltimore; the album likely belonged to him. manuscript, “29th Street Bridge” near spine. Minor wear to binder. Photographs in generally excellent condition. The “Leopold” credit in the photographs likely belongs to Harry Leopold, a contract photographer in Baltimore who also often worked for the Baltimore Sun. An informative collection of photographs documenting the various stages of con- struction of Baltimore’s 29th Street Bridge, a federal construction project com- A rare and perhaps unique photographic record of an FDR-era bridge construc- pleted during the latter years of the Great Depression. The 29th Street Bridge, tion project in Maryland. $2250. for his skill and industry as a topographical art- ist, a calling which he pursued in the seemingly generous spare time allowed him by Magdalen College. His first recorded drawings were of Wolvercote church, north of Oxford; one of his drawings was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798, and he exhibited there every year un- til 1849. In 1797, with the encouragement of Martin Routh, president of Magdalen, whom he later described as his ‘early and constant friend’ (Buckler, 50), he published two aquatint engravings of the college, and two years later, in 1799, again with Routh’s support, he made an engraving of Lincoln Cathedral, the first of a series of engraved views which by 1814 had grown to include all the English cathedrals and many of the major collegiate and parish churches.... Commissions from other antiquaries, among them William Salt of Stafford, and from several noblemen, gentlemen, and clergymen, followed rapidly, and by the end of his life Buckler could claim authorship of 13,000 drawings of buildings throughout England and Wales, A Lovely Aquatint View with Somerset, Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Stafford- shire, and Wiltshire especially strongly represented. (Taunton Museum, Somerset, 3. Buckler, John: [VIEW OF SAINT MARY MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OX- holds a collection of Buckler’s drawings, as does the Bodleian Library, Oxford.) FORD]. London. 1799. Colored aquatint engraving. Image size 15½ x 22¾ inches, These meticulous works of art, in pencil or pen and wash, supplied an invaluable matted and framed to 24 x 32 inches. Minor toning, else fine. Matted and framed. body of information about medieval and later buildings, many of them previously A large aquatint engraving by British artist John Buckler (1770-1851), with a view unrecorded, and many subsequently demolished or drastically altered” – DNB. of Mary Magdalen College as seen from across the river. The River Cherwell is This print appears to be rather scarce and is actually misidentified and dated in the foreground, and the Magdalen Bridge and the College buildings are seen incorrectly in the British Museum’s online catalog, as their copy is lacking the from a distance, with the main tower rising centrally in the landscape. imprint line. No other references to this work could be found.
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