Genre: Historical Events General view, slightly distant, of building under construction. See print 10 for an earlier view of construction and print 26 for a good view of the completed structure. Subjects = civil engineering; docks and dockyards; engine houses; harbour works; industrial buildi...
Calcutta Docks - Swing Bridge at entrances. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events General view of the swing gates into the tide basin from the river. Subjects = bridges; civil engineering; docks and dockyards; harbour works
Calcutta Docks - Displacement of wall. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Showing slippage of the dock wall along Dock No. 1. This disaster occured because the berm left along the dock wall was insufficient and the walls started to slip bodily forward. The misjudgement was rectified by raising the height of the water, by this means holding th...
Kidderpore Dock, with steamer 'Mayo' passing through 60 ft dock. The first steamer that entered the Dock [Calcutta]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Showing the RIMS Mayo in the lock leading into the tide basin from the River Hugli. Print has suffered considerable physical abrasion to its surface. Subjects = civil engineering; docks and dockyards; harbour works; locks; mail steamers; Mayo (RIMS); named vessels; s...