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