Excerpt:
Since the presentation of our last album in 1873, the rapid increase in the variety and amount of out business, in the design and manufacture of bridges and of all kinds of structures of iron and steel, renders it necessary for us to exhibit to the public, and to our friends and customers particularly, the present state of constructive engineering as existing at the works of the Phoenix Bridge Company.
Annotation:
The Digital Bridges project at Lehigh University has archived and posted this 1885 publication in html, pdf, and tiff formats. The summary of affairs of the Phoenix Bridge Company and its subsidiaries provides a fascinating look into bridge and railroad technology in the 1880s. Though the majority of the book is text, many clear photographs of the company's work are interspersed between the typed pages. Any researchers of railroad and bridge history, as well as of the business of transportation, would do well to examine this document. Also see "Album of Designs of the Phoenixville Bridge-Works."