PC-002-623

Topock Bridge over Colorado River, near Needles, California

Trails Arch Bridge, Route 66 over Colorado River

1920s

 

The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, New York

A bowstring bridge has automobiles traveling on it in this black-and-white image. This was the Trails Arch Bridge (1916) that once carried Route 66 traffic between Arizona and California where the Colorado River is the boundary. Topock, Arizona, is downriver from Needles on the other side. After 1947 the bridge was preserved and converted to carrying pipelines, a National Register of Historic Places site since 1988. The same image had a different title that placed it "near Kingman" instead of Needles when printed for Kingman Drug Company.

Trails Arch Bridge; Topac Bridge; Colorado River Bridge; Borders; Bridges; Route 66; Colorado River; Rivers; Bowstring bridges

 

California-Arizona border

 

 

MS-0008

 

Needles Drug and Jewelry Company, Needles, California

Postcard

3.5 inches X 5.5 inches

No

 

 

 

Image

TIFF

21.01 MB