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Preferred Citation note
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Content note
Title: Collection of drawings of Santa Barbara County bridges
Identifier/Call Number: 0000284
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Container: 545
Physical Description:
3.0 Linear feet
(1 flat file folder)
Date (inclusive): circa 1914
creator:
Flournoy, Frank F.
creator:
Santa Barbara County (Calif.).
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Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Preferred Citation note
Collection of drawings of Santa Barbara County bridges, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum;
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Biographical/Historical note
Frank F. Flournoy was born in Missouri in 1868. By the late 1800s Flournoy relocated to Santa Barbara, California where he
became the county surveyor, a position he held from 1895 to 1915. Frank Flournoy died at the age of 91, in the year 1960.
Scope and Content note
The County of Santa Barbara drawings of bridges span 3 linear feet and date from 1914. The collection is composed of nine
original architectural drawings documenting four different bridges along the state highway in Santa Barbara, California. Drawings
document the Pony Pratt Truss Bridge over the Dos Pueblos Creek, the Eagle Creek Bridge, a 20 foot Bridge on the State Highway,
and the Pedregosa Creek stone bridge- in the form of elevations, sections, and counterfort schedules. All but one of the drawings
have Frank F. Flournoy listed as the County Surveyor and Edward T. Flaherty listed as the Consulting Engineer.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Flournoy, Frank F.
Santa Barbara County (Calif.).
Architectural drawings
Bridges