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"Bankhead Tunnel, Mobile, Alabama...Underneath the Mobile River, connecting Government Street with U. S. Highway 90, East. This 3,389 feet long underwater tunnel was completed in 1941 at a cost of $4,000,000 and is 49 feet below mean high water level of the river." View of tunnel entrance. Side 1.

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  • Item: 174
  • Description: "Bankhead Tunnel, Mobile, Alabama...Underneath the Mobile River, connecting Government Street with U. S. Highway 90, East. This 3,389 feet long underwater tunnel was completed in 1941 at a cost of $4,000,000 and is 49 feet below mean high water level of the river." View of tunnel entrance. Side 1.
  • Creator(s): Thigpen, Roy M.
  • Date: 1954
  • City/State: Mobile, Alabama
  • County: Mobile County
  • Call Number: PI/2008.0001
  • Filename: 120971-photo-1.tif