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Bending huge steel girders. Washington, D.C., Sept. 23. At the U.S. Bureau of Standards officials were witnessing the testing of rigid steel frame knees that are used in grade eliminations such as over-passes, under-passes, bridges, etc. This photo shows the girder or knee placed into the huge 600,000 lb. testing machine in preparation for the test. This welded rigid steel frame knee which was designed to withstand 50,000 pounds had a maximum load of 153,600 lbs placed on it before it buckled
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A black and white photo of a man working in a factory, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Date from related adjacent neg. LC-H22-2404.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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