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The Tower Bridge is a vertical lift bridge across the Sacramento River, linking West Sacramento in Yolo County to the west, with the capital of California, Sacramento, in Sacramento County to the east

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The Tower Bridge is a vertical lift bridge across the Sacramento River, linking West Sacramento in Yolo County to the west, with the capital of California, Sacramento, in Sacramento County to the east

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The bridge's style represents a rare use of Streamline Moderne architectural styling in a lift bridge, making it an expression of the social and architectural climate of the period of construction.
Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B. Lovelace; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:063).
Forms part of: Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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01/01/2012
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Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
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Location

Sacramento (Calif.)38.58167, -121.49444
Google Map of 38.58166666666667, -121.49444444444444
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