FRANCE - INDUSTRY - SEINE-ET-MARNE - BOIS-LE-ROI - Lot 376

FRANCE - INDUSTRY - SEINE-ET-MARNE - BOIS-LE-ROI Album showing the construction of the new bridge at Bois-le-Roi, Seine-et-Marne, ca.1953. Photographs. Album of 153 vintage silver prints, some with captioned typed labels underneath. Old bridge destroyed, old structure removed, new bridge, cofferdams built, steam-powered sheep, excavation, shoring, concrete transport by floating crane, masonry slabbing, reinforcement, facing, wigwam, cabling, winding machine, bender, reinforcement tensioning, work under snow, with the 1952 Seine flood, kerbstones laid, screeds, M.Beteille supervising the tests, inauguration of the bridge with Prefect Ernst, Seine-et-Marne Council President Begoin. Images: 12.3 x 17.3 cm; album: 31.3 x 47.5 cm