Search Results
- IDNO:
- 048448
- Title:
- Bluestone Bridge Bent Steel After Collapse into Bluestone River, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- A close-up look at the bent bridge steel.A week after the collapse the men began dismantling the twisted span, using a never before used technique by burning the steel beams with chemicals.Five workmen killed and four injured when the 300-ton span buckled and folded downward into the mouth of Bluestone River.
- IDNO:
- 048449
- Title:
- Bluestone Bridge Span Collapse into Mouth of Bluestone River, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- Ground view of the disaster.Five workmen killed and four injured when the 300-ton span buckled and folded downward into the mouth of Bluestone River.A week after the collapse the men began dismantling the twisted span, using a never before used technique by burning the steel beams with chemicals.
- IDNO:
- 048450
- Title:
- Bluestone Bridge Damage After Collapse into Mouth of Bluestone River, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- A close-up look at the bent bridge steel.A week after the collapse the men began dismantling the twisted span, using a never before used technique by burning the steel beams with chemicals.Five workmen killed and four injured when the 300-ton span buckled and folded downward into the river.
- IDNO:
- 048451
- Title:
- Close-Up of Damage to Bluestone Bridge After Collapse into Mouth of Bluestone River, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- An unidentified man climbs up the collapsed structure.A week after the collapse the men began dismantling the twisted span, using a never before used technique by burning the steel beams with chemicals.Five workmen killed and four injured when the 300-ton span buckled and folded downward into the river.
- IDNO:
- 048453
- Title:
- Bluestone Bridge Disaster, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- Three men observe the damage after the span of the bridge collapsed into the mouth of the Bluestone River.Five workmen killed and four injured when the 300-ton span buckled and folded downward into the mouth of Bluestone River.A week after the collapse the men began dismantling the twisted span, using a never before used technique by burning the steel beams with chemicals.
- IDNO:
- 048553
- Title:
- Young Men with Guns on Meador Farm near Mouth of Bluestone River, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- James David Neely (left), Luther L. Meador (center), and C. Brade Neely (right) holding guns, perhaps used for hunting, and sitting with their dogs. Meador sips from a bottle in the middle.The farm is now known as Meador Camp Ground at Bluestone State Park.
- IDNO:
- 048590
- Title:
- Scene Looking West from Roundhouse in Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- Looking out over the railroad track and yard beside a river.
- IDNO:
- 048591
- Title:
- Looking West from Roundhouse Office, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- View overlooking train cars in the railroad yard beside a river.
- IDNO:
- 048816
- Title:
- C. & O. Train in Avis Yards, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- Engine No. 307 pictured pulling "Chesapeake & Ohio" cars.
- IDNO:
- 048975
- Title:
- Owen D. Wills at Cooper's Mill, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- Wills, then owner of the mill, is pictured beside the water wheel.
- IDNO:
- 048976
- Title:
- Leona "Lee" Wills at Cooper's Mill, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- Daughter of then owner Owen Wills stands next to the water wheel.
- IDNO:
- 049035
- Title:
- Possibly Ruth Tolley Gwinn, a Female Pilot, at Pence Springs Airport, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- What is likely Gwinn poses next to an airplane.
