American Experience; Secrets of a Master Builder; 1303c1
- Series
- American Experience
- Program
- Secrets of a Master Builder
- Episode Number
- 1303c1
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-085hs6gn
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- Description
- Description
- 00:46 #364 Construction of West Pier 01:14 #354 Closing the West Span 01:59 #499 Headline "In Antagonism" 02:30 #357 Food lying on St. Louis docks 02:49 #375 Physics and Hydraulics, by Humphreys 03:21 #106 St. Louis Levee, easterly 03:40 #539 Caisson 04:58 #321 Sinking the East Pier 05:31 #315 Construction of the piers 05:59 #569 Elevation tube 07:22 #349 West Pier Construction 08:25 #348 Eads Bridge, 1873 09:13 #353 Eads Bridge 09:32 #128 NY Daily Tribune article 09:55 #431 Drawing of the mouth of the South Pass 10:34 #466 Drawing of the Mississippi Jetties 11:50 #470 Eads banquet program 12:12 #478 The ship railway 12:41 #444A Building willow mattresses 13:41 #402 Steamboats in New Orleans 14:30 Check to Eads for $750,000 15:29 #320 Men standing on pier 16:35 #571 Eads portrait - oil painting 17:07 #87 Front St., color lithograph 17:38 #124 Chouteau's Pond 18:07 Family Life on the Frontier - oil painting 18:33 Lighter relieving a Steamboat run aground 18:59 #420 Barge with front end loader 19:36 #132a Interior lobby of the Southern Hotel 20:06 Bombardment of Fort Henry 20:55 #537 Bombardment of Fort Henry - transparency 21:19 #182 View of St. Louis from Lucas Place 21:50 House - transparency
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Production Unit: American Experience
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 307 (WGBH Item ID)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Original
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- Citations
- Chicago: “American Experience; Secrets of a Master Builder; 1303c1,” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 25, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-085hs6gn.
- MLA: “American Experience; Secrets of a Master Builder; 1303c1.” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 25, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-085hs6gn>.
- APA: American Experience; Secrets of a Master Builder; 1303c1. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-085hs6gn