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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00567
Title: WPA-built underpasses for the Great Northern Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railroad, Fargo (N.D.)
Date: 1939-1942
Inscription/Marks: On the front: a red mark in the right margin. On the back: col. 75/567, "Underpass at Fargo-G.N.R.R. and N.P.R.R. have underpasses at 10th St", and several edit numbers.
Summary: The image shows two parallel underpasses which have been built to carry pedestrian and vehicular traffic under the railroad tracks of the Great Northern Railroad and also the Northern Pacific Railroad. The overpass in the foreground, carrying the Great Northern trains is supported by fluted piers in the Art Deco design style and the girders are metal. The far bridge over Tenth Street is styled differently, still Art Deco in design, but a more complex and elegant version. The piers and concrete railing posts are fluted and dentils run the length of the railing at its base. Both bridges are single span steel stringer types. The Northern Pacific bridge still exists and is on the National Register of Historic Places as 32CS4472. The G.N.R.R. overpass structure is no longer in place. (2019)
Red ID: PH_I_145005 Image ID: 106040 Image Notes: 00075-00567

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00567
Title: WPA-built underpasses for the Great Northern Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railroad, Fargo (N.D.)
Date: 1939-1942
Inscription/Marks: On the front: a red mark in the right margin. On the back: col. 75/567, "Underpass at Fargo-G.N.R.R. and N.P.R.R. have underpasses at 10th St", and several edit numbers.
Summary: The image shows two parallel underpasses which have been built to carry pedestrian and vehicular traffic under the railroad tracks of the Great Northern Railroad and also the Northern Pacific Railroad. The overpass in the foreground, carrying the Great Northern trains is supported by fluted piers in the Art Deco design style and the girders are metal. The far bridge over Tenth Street is styled differently, still Art Deco in design, but a more complex and elegant version. The piers and concrete railing posts are fluted and dentils run the length of the railing at its base. Both bridges are single span steel stringer types. The Northern Pacific bridge still exists and is on the National Register of Historic Places as 32CS4472. The G.N.R.R. overpass structure is no longer in place. (2019)
Red ID: PH_I_145005 Image ID: 101362 Image Notes: 00075-00567-back

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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