I found this rare and out of print book of sketches by William Woollett from 1935. It includes a handful from the original construction of the Bay Bridge East Span. Since we’re celebrating an almost wondrous new structure there, I thought I’d make these available to everyone.

I don’t know how to use WordPress light box. So just click twice on each picture to see the enlarged version. Then use your browser’s back button to get to the next picture. Bad. Easier: They’re all together on my Flickr page.

William Woollett also did a book of sketches of Hoover Dam. The 1989 Capra Press (Santa Barbara) book that these sketches appeared in also includes the Golden Gate Bridge, San Diego sketches, Los Angles sketches, other San Francisco sketches,  Hoover Dam, aqueducts, canals, missions and transmission lines. I guess he was into infrastructure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s what William Woollett looked like:

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