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Othmar Herman Ammann
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Born March 26, 1879 • Schaffhausen • Switzerland
Died September 22, 1965 (aged 86) • Rye • New York

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Engineer Gustav Lindenthal (second from right) and his chief assistant, Othmar Ammann (second from left), posing upon the completion of the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City, 1916.
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