angle torn to pieces
Exhibit 124, 13.
(cropped from border and page)
“Shows a fragment of an 8″ × 6″ × 13/16″ angle torn to pieces and closed together to nearly close contact.”
ex Quebec Bridge Inquiry 1907, Vol. 11. Minutes of Proceedings and Printed Exhibits (Ottawa, 1908)
University of Michigan copy, digitized Feb 10, 2006
also NYPL copy
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“The world is all there, just as it used to be, but I can’t get at it any more.”
Willa Cather, Alexander’s Bridge (1912) : 104
tags:
alienation; failure; iron; Quebec Bridge collapse; the unlived life
Willa Cather, Alexander’s Bridge (1912)