Erecting wagons for the BB & CI Ry. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events View of the railway workshops at Kanchrapara? Subjects = industrial buildings; railway workshops; railways; Spalding Collection; transport
Madras. The catamaran. Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Catamaran and boatmen on the beach at Madras. The catarmarans accompanied the massulah boatmen to bring passengers ashore. Photograph unsigned but probably by Nicholas & Co. Subjects = catamarans; local craft; Spalding Collection; transport; water transport
Madras. Masulah boat. Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Masulah boat beached on the foreshore, with crew seated at their places. Photograph unsigned, but probably by Nicholas & Co. Subjects = local craft; masula boats; Spalding Collection; transport; water transport
[Opening of the Tiruvalur-Mutupett Railway.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Formal group portrait of dignitaries. Lord Connemara, Governor of Madras, is seated in the centre. A ceremonial wheelbarrow and spade stands in front of the group and a banner reading 'Success to Tiruvalur-Mutupett Railway' hangs above. Photograph presumably taken at Ti...
Wreck of Vikravandi Bridge. Flood Decr 18th, 1884. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events View of collapsed piers of the railway bridge on the line at Vikravandi, north-east of Viluppuram. Photograph signed in negative 'J.A.D.L.' Subjects = bridges; disasters; floods; railways; Spalding Collection; transport
[Wreck of Gingee Bridge, Pondicherry Branch] No. 3. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Similar to print 13. Subjects = bridges; disasters; floods; railways; river scenes; Spalding Collection; transport Location = Gingee (river); India; Puduchcheri; Tamil Nadu
[Wreck of Gingee Bridge, Pondicherry Branch] No. 4. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Workmen dismantling one of the collapsed spans of the bridge. Subjects = bridges; disasters; floods; railways; river scenes; Spalding Collection; transport Location = Gingee (river); India; Puduchcheri; Tamil Nadu