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Title:

Shades of gray, sands of time [electronic resources] : images of concrete construction in days past 1900-1960 / [Portland Cement Association.]

Format:

[electronic resources] :

Publisher:

PCA,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

1 CD-ROM ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Concrete construction--History--Pictorial works.
Building--History--History--Pictorial works.

Other Authors:

Portland Cement Association.

Notes:

"All images are available in high-resolution quality (1536 x 1045 pixels or higher) for use in publications, presentations, and web sites." - home page.

Summary:

Over 900 historical photographs illustrating concrete construction and equipment during the last century (approximately 1900-1960). Included are buildings and bridges, highways and streets, and other types of concrete structures under construction. Of special interest are several hundred images of a vast assortment of machinery used in concrete construction: paving machines, earthmoving machinery, cranes, buckets, buggies and other "tools of the trade." Of these, there are 148 pictures showing vintage ready mix trucks, from the earliest models to those used in the fifties and sixties.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)68626818

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)