Subject: Civil engineering - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1168/1(160)
Title:: Sandstone rocks. Photographer: Robinson (Henry Peach) and Cherrill (Nelson K.)
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across marshy land towards a sandstone ridge, partially excavated by quarrying activity. The photograph is unsigned, but in a similar style to others in this section of the album, of which prints 149, 159 and 164 are signed by the photographers.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/1(3)
Title:: The widening of the Canal, Homura [Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Industrial Photography View looking along the line of the canal, with widening work under way on the left.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/9(4)
Title:: The railway at Kanagawa, Noge [Yokohama], Japan. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the line, seen in the course of construction, running along towards a causeway in the background.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/9(5)
Title:: Cutting for the railway works, at Kanagawa [Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Industrial Photography 'The cutting portrayed on page 109 represents the face of a hill being cut away for filling in and reclaiming operations, connected with the railway. Our object was to shew the men at work, but unfortunately they were taking their midday meal and rest, and our arti...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

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

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