85 Years Later: Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge
AN EXHIBITION FEATURING THE WORKS OF:
Horace Bristol, Peter Stackpole, and Will Connell

Peter Stackpole, Golden Gate Bridge, California, 1935
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- Peter Stackpole, Foundation, South Tower Pier, c. 1934
- Peter Stackpole, Foundation Beginnings, South Tower Pier, c. 1934
- Peter Stackpole, Triangles, c. 1936
- Peter Stackpole, South Tower Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, c. 1936
- Horace Britsol, In the Net, c. 1935–1938
- Horace Britsol, Sculpting the Cables, c. 1935–1938
- Peter Stackpole, Looking East from Golden Gate Bridge toward the Bay Bridge, c. 1937
- Horace Britsol, Lowering the Floor Beam, c. 1935–1938
- Horace Britsol, Derricks, c. 1935–1938
- Peter Stackpole, Curve, c. 1937
- Horace Britsol, On the Tower Saddle, c. 1935–1938
- Horace Britsol, Hammering the Rivets, c. 1935–1938
- Horace Britsol, Painting the Cables, c. 1935–1938
- Peter Stackpole, Climbing the Cable, c. 1936
- Peter Stackpole, Deco Arch, c. 1937
- Attributed to Will Connell, Joseph Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, c. 1937
Related: Joseph Strauss has been credited as Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, but his original design was a cantilever-suspension hybrid. Read more on the design’s evolution here.