Covered Timber Bridge Committee collection, 1930-1979.

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Covered Timber Bridge Committee collection, 1930-1979.

This collection includes research materials collected by the Covered Timber Bridge Committee. The genesis of the collection contains photographs of Indiana covered timber bridges made by Robert B. Yule between 1930 and 1939. Descriptions about bridge construction types and the persons responsible for developing different kinds of trusses are included.

7 document cases, 6 oversize manuscript folders, 10 boxes of photographs, 1 box of color photographs, 1 OVA photograph box, 1 OVA graphics box, 2 photograph albums, 1 painting, 2 slide boxes, 1 artifact.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7611465

Indiana Historical Society Library

Related Entities

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Hohenberger, Frank M. (Frank Michael), 1876-1963

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Photographer of Brown County, Indiana. From the description of Papers, 1918-1963. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 39048606 Newspaperman and Brown County, Indiana, photographer. From the description of Photographs and papers, 1917-1960. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 40214257 ...

Covered Timber Bridge Committee.

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The Covered Timber Bridge Committee was formed in 1931 to investigate, document, and promote the preservation of Indiana's covered bridges. The Committee sent out surveys to county surveyors and sought donations of covered bridge photographs and information from the public. In the 1960s the Committee ended its work. In 1963 the Indiana Covered Bridge Society was organized and continued the work begun by the Committee. From the description of Covered Timber Bridge Committee collection...

Committee to Preserve Covered Bridges.

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Indiana Covered Bridge Society Inc.

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Yapp, L. C. 1883-

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Yule, Robert Burns, 1898-

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National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges

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