These four photos were apparently taken during the construction of a roadway bridge over a canal sometime in the 1930s or 1940s.  All the photos appear to depict the same job, but I could be mistaken.

•      Two groups of barges moving along the canal.  The barges on the left appear to be loaded with coal.  The name on the foreground barge on the right reads "Margaret K. Hutton."  There appears to be a good-sized town in the background.

•      The steam tug "Choctaw" pushing barges under the partially completed new bridge.  The number on her cabin appears to be 4006.  Note the laundry hung out to dry on her stern.  The words "New York" are painted on the tug's stern and on the barge she's pushing.  The big steam whistle sticking out of the front of her stack almost resembles a gun emplacement.  There are other great details in this photo too.  There is a delivery truck on the bank above the tug's bow.  The lettering on the side of the truck is difficult to make out - may read "BURGESS."  Detail above the tug's stern is difficult to make out through her smoke, but I see what might be a crane boom resting on the ground with a pickup truck behind it just above the tug's lifeboat and some kind of portable boiler with a very tall stack on the far left of the photo.

•    A steam crane working on the bridge.

•  A view of the top of the bridge being built.

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