Opening, Elgin Bridge, 17 spans of 200 ft., Gogra River, Bengal and North Western Railway, 25th January 1899. Photographer: Lawrie and Company, G.W.
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Inscription: Photographer's credit on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography Formal group portrait of dignitaries and guests in front of tents at the opening of the bridge.
Opening, Elgin Bridge, 17 spans of 200 ft., Gogra River, Bengal and North Western Railway, 25th January 1899. Photographer: Lawrie and Company, G.W.
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Inscription: Photographer's credit on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of dignitaries posed at the entrance to bridge during the opening ceremony.
Bengal and N. W. Ry., Opening of Izat Bridge at Allahabad, on 31st October, 1912. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of guests posed in front of tents. The print is in very poor condition, with considerable dirt-marking, chemical staining and faded patches. The print is accompanied by a typescript description reading as follows: 'This bridge, which spans the Ganges j...
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.