DULUTH PROGRAM

Session I: 8:30 - 10:00

Panel I. A: ART AND INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY, I

Chair: Betsy Fahlman, Arizona State University

Industrial Art as Educational Tool: Images of the Coal Industry from the Edward Steidle Collection
Eric J. Schruers; Mesa State College

The Art of Steel: The Industry in American Art, 1880-1945
Jadviga M. Da Costa Nunes; Muhlenberg College

The Craft of Production: A Study in the Craft of Guitar Construction at Martin Guitar Company in Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Jet Lowe; HAER, Washington, DC

Panel I. B: LOCKS, DAMS, AND CANALS

Picking the Locks: Industrial Salvage at the Panama Canal
David H. Shayt; Smithsonian Institution

Historic American Engineering Recordation Project of Locks and Dams along the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania
Donald M. Durst, Hardlines Design Co.

Lower Girard Dam: A Study of an Ambursen Type Buttress Dam in the Mahoning Valley
Roy A. Hampton; Hardlines Design Co.

Panel I. C: LANDSCAPE AND WATERPOWER IN CHEPACHET, RI

Chair: Ned Connors

Pond at Night and Pray for Rain: Waterpower Development on an Unreliable River
Patrick Malone; Brown University

Industrial Power, Transportation, and Underdevelopment in a Rhode Island Textile Manufacturing District
Michael S. Raber; Raber Associates, South Glastonbury, CT

Deforestation and Distant Rail: The Transformation of a Rural Industrial Landscape
Ned Connors; Edward Connors & Associates, Barrington, RI

Panel I. D: GOVERNMENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

A Tough Rock to Crack: Pioneering Efforts in Taconite Processing
Charlene K. Roise; Hess, Roise and Company, Minneapolis, MN
Jerry Mathiason; Jerry Mathiason Photography, Minneapolis
Stuart MacDonald; MacDonald & Mack Architects, Minneapolis

Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation: Growth and Decline of the Military-Industrial Complex
Tina Deininger; Northern Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Lester, PA
Allison Rachleff; TAMS Consultants, New York City

Session II: 10:30 - 12:00

Panel II. A: ART AND INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY, II

Chair: Betsy Fahlman, Arizona State University

Inside Clairton Coke Works: Discovery and Intuition at a Large Working Industrial Complex -- IA Photography Issues
Sandy Noyes; Chatham, NY

Palazzo of Power: HAER Photographic Documentation of Port Richmond Generating Station of Philadelphia Electric Company
Joseph Elliott; Sellersville, PA

Twenty Years Behind the Ground Glass: Some Photographs of IA Sites
Gerry Weinstein; New York City

Panel II. B: TRANSPORTATION OF INDUSTRIAL COMMODITIES

Iron Ore Docks of the Great Lakes
Patrick Cooleybeck; Moshe Safdie & Associates, Somerville, MA

Alexander McDougall, John D. Rockefeller, and the S.S. Meteor: A Case Study in the Rise and Fall of a Technological Innovation, 1888-1969
Matthew L. Daley; University of Detroit Mercy

Transportation Systems in the Automobile Manufacturing Industry
Brian McMahon; Consultant, Stillwater, MN

Panel II. C: THE MYTH AND REALITY OF IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE: DAM BUILDING, WATER RIGHTS, AND POLITICS IN THE AMERICAN WEST

Chair: Brian Shovers

History of Irrigation and Associated Water Rights of the Truckee River: 1848-1944
Andrew E. Stroud; Nevada State Engineer's Office, Carson City, NV

Controlling the Flow: The U.S. Reclamation Service and State-of-the-Art Concrete Water Control Technologies on the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project, Montana-North Dakota
Mary McCormick; Renewable Technologies, Inc., Butte, MT

The Evolution of Montana Irrigation Practice and the Triumph of Cooperation
Brian Shovers; Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT

Panel II. D: 17TH ANNUAL HISTORIC BRIDGE SYMPOSIUM I
REGULATION AND RENOVATION: THE MOVEABLE BRIDGES OF CHICAGO AND PORTLAND

Chair: Robert Hadlow; Oregon Dept. of Transportation, Portland, OR

The Politics of Railroad Bridge Construction in Chicago, 1890-1930
Justin M. Spivey; HAER Engineer, Washington, DC

Portland, Progressive Politics, and the Vertical Lift Bridge
Judith McGaw; Independent Scholar/Consultant, Portland, OR

Annual Business Meeting/Lunch: 12:15 - 2:15

Session III: 2:30 - 4:30

Panel III. A: UNDERSTANDING MINING COMMUNITIES

Confessions of the Small-Scale Lode Mine: The Archaeology of the Asa Baldwin Diary
Paul White; Brown University

The Portage Lake Foundry and Machine Company (Ripley, Michigan)
Donald A. Durfee; Michigan Technological University

Commuting in the Copper Country: Railroads and the Company Town of Mason, Michigan
Gianfranco Archimede; Michigan Technological University

The Finnish Immigrant Press, Company Spies, and other Strange Stories from the Mining Ranges: A Brief History of Tyomies
Nancy Farm Mannikko; Independent Scholar, L'Anse, MI

Work in Progress: Northern West Virginia Iron Workers
Lee Maddox; West Virginia University

Panel III. B: INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE: STRUCTURES, BUILDINGS, DISTRICTS

The Pullman Water Tower
Charles E. Gergerson; Pullman Civic Organization, Chicago, IL

Laying out "The Works" as Industrial Landscapes
Betsey Hunter Bradley; Case Western Reserve University

Industrial Growth and the Production of Space in the Birmingham District (Alabama)
Nicholas Kouchoukos; University of Chicago

Panel III. C: THE ARCHEOLOGY OF EARLY INDUSTRY

Forging in the Highlands: A Hundred Forges in the New Jersey Highlands
Bierce Riley and Joseph Macasek; Roebling Chapter, SIA

Pittsburgh Wool Company: Pulled out of Pittsburgh
Christopher Marston; HAER, Washington DC

Whitman Roundhouse Park: Interpreting an Industrial Archaeological Landscape
Matthew A. Kierstead; Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc., Pawtucket, RI

Archaeological and Historical Investigations at a 19th-Century Kanawha Valley Saltworks
William Updike; Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., Hurricane, WV

Panel III. D: 17TH ANNUAL HISTORIC BRIDGE SYMPOSIUM II
GENERAL SESSION

Chair: Eric Delony; Chief, HAER

Welcome & "State of the Bridge" Remarks
Eric Delony; Chief, Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, Washington, DC

Crossing Our (T's) and Dotting Our (I's): Historic Michigan Street Bridge, Sturgeon Bay, WI
Shawn Fairchild; Sturgeon Bay, WI

Ubiquitous, Utilitarian, and Under Appreciated: The Wooden Trestle Spans of the Chicago & North Western Railroad
Cydney Millstein; Architectural Historian, Kansas City, MO
Charlene Roise; Hess, Roise & Company, Minneapolis, MN

Rehabilitation of the Regency Suspension Bridge
Charles Walker, PE; Texas Dept. of Transportation, Austin, TX

Hoosier Heritage: The Second Indiana Bridge Survey Program
Joseph Saldibar III; Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO