Name/Title
Raising the Causeway BridgeEntry/Object ID
2018.039.047Description
Black and white photograph of the Causeway bridge being lifted by two large cranes to allow for the removal of gear from the mechanism damaged in October 1966. The view is from the Sayreville end of the bridge.
The back of the photograph has a handwritten note that reads, "South River - Bridges - Causeway." A date is also stamped in red, "Feb 6, 1967."
A similar photograph was used in a February 4, 1967 article in the Daily Home News with the caption, "Contact - View from down river as barge strikes underside of bridge." ["Drama on the Causeway Bridge," Daily Home News, Feb. 4, 1967, p. 1 & 6]. This photograph was taken from the opposite side of the bridge as the photograph in the newspaper.
Measures 10" x 8".Photograph Details
Subject Place
Bridge
Causeway BridgeRiver
South River [River]City
South RiverState/Province
New JerseyCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaAcquisition
Accession
2018.039Source or Donor
Home News TribuneAcquisition Method
Collected by StaffMade/Created
Date made
Feb 1967Time Period
20th CenturyLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Hub SortingOther Number
010.bridge.001
