Building the Carquinez Bridge, the First Major Automobile Crossing of San Francisco Bay and One of the World’s Largest Cantilever Bridges, 1927
Carquinez Bridge construction photo archive documenting the industrial development of the 1927 cantilever crossing at the Carquinez Strait, a transportation project driven by California’s rapid automobile growth and the mounting inadequacy of the Vallejo ferry connection between the Bay Area and Sacramento. By the early 1920s California vehicle registrations had.....