Letter from the Secretary of war in response to Senate resolution of December 10, 1894, transmitting the report of the Board of Engineers and bridge-b
A US government report printed in Washington in 1894, transmitting to the Senate the findings of an Army Corps of Engineers board on a proposed river bridge, made for legislators and engineers. The plates are folding lithographed engineering drawings: long thin elevations of suspension and truss spans, latticed tower details with masonry piers and foundation plans, and river cross-sections with soundings, useful as line-only technical diagrams, hairline hatching, and extreme-wide-format compositions.
