Image: Melan Arch Bridge

Description: Southern side of the Melan Bridge, located east of Rock Rapids in Lyon County, Iowa, United States. Built in 1893 to carry a road over a small creek, this bridge — among the first to use Josef Melan's reinforced concrete bridge design — has since been moved to Emma Sater Park. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Title: Melan Arch Bridge
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division HAER: IOWA,60-ROCRA.V,1-3
Author: Joseph Elliott
Permission: This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information. Creator: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record. Survey number HAER IA-15-3 Source: U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, "Built in America" Collection. Copyright: "The original measured drawings and most of the photographs and data pages in HABS/HAER/HALS were created for the U.S. Government and are considered to be in the public domain."
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License: Public domain
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