Topeka Avenue Bridge

Original Vintage Card

Price: $4.95

Stock #:

24987

Type:

Postcard

Era:

Linen

City:

Topeka

State:

Kansas (KS)

County:

Shawnee

Publisher:

Palmer News Co.

Postmark:

1951

Postmark City:

Dewitt Park

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Size:

3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Spans the Kansas River at Topeka and is a connecting link in U.S. Highway No. 75. The bridge is of deck-plate steel girder type. The center span is 941 feet llong and is the largest span of continuous plate girder that has ever been fabricated in the Uited States. Five spans make up bridge, which is 4,440 feet, almost a mile long, and the longest highway bridge in Kansas. The four lane traffic roadway is thirty seven feet above the high water mark and was opened to through traffic in September 1938.

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THE TOPEKA AVENUE BRIDGE SPANS THE KANSAS RIVER at Topeka and is a connecting link in U.S. Highway No. 75. The bridge is of deck-plg steel girder type. The center span is 941 long and is the largest span of continuous NOV plate girder that has ever been fabricated in the United States. Five spans make up 2890AM bridge, which is 4,440 feet, almost a mile long, and the longest highway bridge Kansas. The four lane traffic roadway is thirty seven feet above the high water mark and was opened to through traffic in September 1938. AR TASHINGTON THOST CARD TOPEKA, KANSAS PALMER NEWS CO. AUNT Bessie Thank you Ima lit. Fumar Loves actie 3323 fpreenelit de Little Rock, arka GENUINE CURTEICH-CHICAGO

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