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Louis L. McAllister Photographs

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Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Title: Burlington Airport
Photographer: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963.
Date Created: 1941-08-23
Description: August 23, 1941. Burlington Municipal Airport, WPA (Work Projects Administration) Project. This view shows the grading for the new diagonal runway practically completed and the asphaltic emulsion soil stabilization base construction in progress under contract with the Warren Brothers Roads Company of Boston, Massachusetts. This base is being constructed with the natural soil as found on the site using American Bitumuls Company stabilizing emulsion blading the mixtures into windrows after each application and then spreading it back over the same area with one additional application for each two inches in thickness of loose mixed material. The completed base course being 4 1/2 inches in completed thickness.
Subject: Landscape photography.
Construction projects.
Burlington International Airport.
Burlington (Vt.).
United States Work Projects Administration.
Type of Resource: still image
Genre: photographs
black-and-white photographs
Extent: 1 image
Source Document Location: University of Vermont Libraries. Special Collections.
Shelf Location: Louis L. McAllister Photographs, Box A1, Folder 20, Item 11
Note [Digital Version]: 2007-10-19, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries
Access Conditions: Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Identifier (local): mcalA01F20i11
Digital Format: image/tiff

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