Men and donkeys crossing wood cantilever bridge in Tibetan Plateau

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Title	Men and donkeys crossing wood cantilever bridge in Tibetan Plateau
Part of Set	Harrison Forman Collection - Tibet
Date of Photograph	1937
Photographer's Note	Env. 113: Tibet '37
Photographer	Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Description	It was of the cantilever type. From either side of the stream extended ten layers of twenty rough-hewn, side-by-side logs, with each upper series projecting several feet farther toward the opposite bank than the layer below. The outer ends slanted upward slightly, and the shore ends were securely anchored with heavy rocks. Stringers, laid horizontally across the gap between the uppermost layers of logs out jutting from either side of the stream, were crossed with twelve-foot lengths of split logs to form the floor of the bridge. Four-foot up-rights carried railing across the length. No nails were used; only wooden pegs and clever notching of the logs. Twenty feet below, the river splashed and foamed over the rocks (p. 32).
Source of Descriptive Information	Forman, H. (1936). Through Forbidden Tibet. London: Jarrolds
Subject TGM	People Men Bridges Logs Donkeys
Subject LC	Tibet, Plateau of
Continent	Asia
Country	China
Geographic Feature	Qing Zang Gaoyuan (plateau)
Type	Image
Original Collection	Harrison Forman Collection
Original Item Size	35 mm
Original Item Medium	Black-and-white negatives; Cellulose nitrate film
Original Item Location	Forman Nitrate Negatives, Box 8
Original Item ID	4-9
Provenance	Gift of Sandra Carlyle Forman, 1987
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital ID	fr203768
Date Digitized	2007
Digital Collection	Tibet - From the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library
Digital Format	Image/jpg
Project Name	NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images
Part of	American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive

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