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Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/11(4)
Title:: View to the eastward of Kobe. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the city, with construction work under way in the foreground, 'the site destined for the terminus of the railway.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/21(3)
Title:: The canal cutting [Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Industrial Photography View looking along the canal at Yokohama, towards the deep cutting.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/7(4)
Title:: Telegraph gang, near Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Industrial Photography Showing a gang at work erecting a telegraph pole beside a railway line, under the supervision of European foremen: 'The telegraph is fast extending throughout the realm. Already the wires are complete between Kobe and Yedo — and but for the typhoon of the 25th Augu...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/21(6)
Title:: Piling — on the Rokugo River [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View looking along the Tama-gawa, with piles being sunk in the foreground, presumably to consolidate the riverbank.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4622(3)
Title:: View in the quarries at Hager Silsilis. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 38 1857' in the negative (date partially cropped). Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking along the rock face in the quarries at Gebel el-Silsila, with the entrance to a rock-cut temple and a large inscribed tablet carved in a massive boulder in the fo...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4624(15)
Title:: The Nile, from the quarries of Toura. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the Nile, with excavated mounds of rock of the in the foreground: 'We are twelve miles from Cairo. Our 'ark' is moored at the village of Toura, a name which is probably derived from that of the ancie...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

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