Which Norfolk bridge is this?

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Mike

I'm not an expert on the bridges at Norfolk by any means, but I  
believe this is a photo of bridge 5, and was used, cropped for  
vertical on the cover of an N&W Magazine, don't have the exact date at  
hand. The negative number, 5387, down in the lower right hand corner,  
based on other negative numbers is probably mid 1922, not the 1950s.  
Virginia Tech, for reasons unknown, did not have folks who understood  
the N&W's negative numbering, or who chose to ignore it in many cases.  
If a negative came there without a sleeve, they assigned a new number  
to it, i.e. NS 3717 in this case, which actually, in most cases,  
conflicts with a regular N&W negative number. They also did not have  
anyone who understood the subject matter, nor could identify it  
properly, hence the many errors in the descriptions. Even when offered  
correct information, they showed little interest, and never bothered  
to refile photos with the corrected information.

Ken Miller

On Jan 15, 2011, at 5:42 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> I was looking thru the images at VT and saw this one: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/F1/NS3717.JPG 

> . Can somebody tell me where this bridge is in Norfolk? Secondly,  

> notice the five-masted ship on the right of the photo. That seems a  

> little strange for the 1950's, unless this photo is much older than  

> that. Thoughts anybody?

>

> Mike Weeks

> Brody School of Medicine

> Greenville, NC

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