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Author: Stackpole, Peter
Title: Installing a section of the catwalk
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:
Date Published: 1935; vintage print
Description:

Gelatin silver print mounted on board. 17.2x24.4 cm (6¾x9½"); board: 27.8x35.5 cm (11x14").

Signed by Peter Stackpole on mounting board and dated 1935. Reprinted as plate 51 in The Bridge Builders: Photographs and Documents of the Raising of the San Francisco Bay Bridge 1934-1936. "Peter Stackpole was twenty-one when he began his project of photographing the men who were building the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. He had been using a Model A Leica camera since 1929, and by 1934, when he began his work on the bridge, he felt that he had found, as he says, 'a great big subject that the small camera could handle best'." -publisher.

Stain to mounting board, else fine.