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Language Not applicable Subject Railway construction Level [32] Fonds

1. Photo 230

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 230
Title:
Photograph album: Construction of the East Bengal Railway from Calcutta through Nadia and Faridpur districts. Photographer(s): J. A. Temple, Charles Lazarus and others unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-leather bound album (spine and bindings weak) measuring 240 mm x 370 mm, with Photographs written in ink on front board, prints lightly mounted on page. The majority of prints are uncaptioned: a few are lightly captioned in pencil and prints 7-11 have letterpress captions. The album mainly ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862-1872
Extent:
44 albumen prints mounted in album

2. Photo 1178

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178
Title:
Views of construction work on the Haputale, Kurunegela, Galle and Bandarawela Railways, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Photographer(s): Unknown (probably William Louis Henry Skeen and Co)
Scope & Content:
Collection of 30 loose albumen prints, captioned and dated in a contemporary hand on the reverse, documenting railway construction in Ceylon in the early to mid-1890s. The views show work in progress on the Matara and Galle lines (following the coast along the south-west corner of the island), t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1893-1895
Extent:
30 items

3. Photo 1221

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1221
Title:
Clowser Collection: Photographs relating to the construction of the Bhor Ghat Railway . Photographer(s): Clowser, George Lewis
Scope & Content:
Collection of 29 albumen prints loosely inserted in corner slits in a cloth bound album measuring 305 x 250 mm. According to the donor, the photographs were taken by his great grandfather George Lewis Clowser, who was employed as an engineer on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway from 1853. He a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1855-1859
Extent:
29 items

4. Photo 1290

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1290
Title:
Beas Bridge, North Western Railway, Season 1908 to 1909. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Collection of 61 loose prints (previously housed in a blue cloth-covered album, titled on front cover as above, now disbound), recording construction work on the Beas Bridge during the season of 1908-09.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908-1909
Extent:
61 items