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
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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 ...
K.B. Dn. [Kalpi Bridge Division], 2 engineers drowned in the river between pier No. VII and VIII by the storm on evening of 10th March 1886. Photographed 9.0 a.m. 13.3.86. Photographer: Unknown
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Inscription: Captioned in the negative, with date added in pencil on print Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the river towards piers VIIA and VIIB, with a boat in the foreground and pontoons in position in the process of raising a steam engine presumably sunk during the storm.
[Pontoon bridge across the Jumna at Kalpi during construction of the Kalpi Bridge.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the Jumna at Kalpi, crossed her by a pontoon bridge, with railway staff bungalows, a temple and ghat on the far side. Ox wagons are disembarking from the ferry moored at the bank in the foreground.