Subject: Railway construction - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1221(24)
Title:: [Tunnel building on the Bhor Ghat Railway Incline.] Photographer: Clowser, George Lewis
Scope & Content:: View looking along the line towards a partially completed tunnel, with Indian labourers and a European posed on and around the wooden scaffolding still in place.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855-1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1221(25)
Title:: [Tunnel building, Bhor Ghat Railway Incline.] Photographer: Clowser, George Lewis
Scope & Content:: View showing a mass of Indian labourers removing spoil from the interior of a partially completed tunnel, under the supervision of a European overseer in the centre of the photograph.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855-1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1221(27)
Title:: [View on the Bhor Ghat Railway Incline.] Photographer: Clowser, George Lewis
Scope & Content:: View looking along the line towards hills beyond, with a European group posed on and beside a railway trolley in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855-1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1221(28)
Title:: [Railway settlement on the Bhor Ghat Incline.] Photographer: Clowser, George Lewis
Scope & Content:: View looking towards a range of buildings—presumably accommodation for railway labour—with a group of smaller thatched huts in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855-1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1221(29)
Title:: Adamson's House [Khandala?]. Photographer: Clowser, George Lewis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Captioned as above in pencil on the reverse. View looking towards a group of bungalows on the hillside. The title presumably refers to Swainston Adamson, who is listed in commercial directories for the period as a joint manager of the Bhor Ghat Railway Works, based at Khandala.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855-1859
Extent:: 1 item

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

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

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