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Photo 59/1

Record Id:
040-003043462
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003043461
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x0007a7
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 59/1
Title:

Burma Railways Collection: Construction of the Gokteik Viaduct (part 1). Photographer(s): Wagstaff and Company

Scope & Content:

Dark blue half-leather bound album measuring 268x330mm, with prints mounted one to a page. Prints are uncaptioned apart from reference numbers and dates at bottom right hand corner of each print. The album records the construction of the Gokteik Viaduct on the line between Mandalay and Lashio from December 1899 to August 1900. The documentation is continued in Photo 59/2.

Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003043461
040-003043462
Is part of:
Photo 59 : Burma Railways Collection. Photographer(s): Klier, Philip Adolphe

 

Photo 59/1 : Burma Railways Collection: Construction of the Gokteik Viaduct (part 1). Photographer(s): Wagstaff and Company
Contains:
Photo 59/1(1) : [Cranes and railway sleepers at start of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(2) : [Railway sleepers and engineers' bungalows at Gokteik.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(3) : [View across the Gokteik Valley from the south]. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(4) : [View across the Gokteik Valley from the south, with construction work in foreground.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(5) : [View across the Gokteik Valley from the south, with workers' quarters in the foreground.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(6) : [View near the Gokteik Valley.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(7) : [View across the Gokteik Valley from the south, with gantry crane on the line in the foreground.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(8) : [Start of the Gokteik Viaduct, from below.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(9) : [Gantry crane moving into position on the Gokteik Viaduct, view from the south.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(10) : [View across the Gokteik Valley from the south]. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(11) : [Gantry crane at southern end of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(12) : [Gantry crane at southern end of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(13) : [Gantry crane at southern end of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(14) : [Gantry crane at southern end of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(15) : [Gantry crane at southern end of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(16) : Section of Gokteik Viaduct being linked to steel pier. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(17) : [Gantry crane at southern end of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(18) : [Work in progress on early sections of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(19) : [Gantry crane on the Gokteik Viaduct, view from below.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(20) : [Gantry crane moving steel sections into position on the Gokteik Viaduct, view from the south.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(21) : [Gantry crane on southern end of Gokteik Viaduct, view from valley floor.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(22) : [Work in progress on early sections of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(23) : [Gantry crane with large cantilevered section above Gokteik Valley.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(24) : [Gantry crane with large cantilevered section above Gokteik Valley.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/1(25) : [Gantry crane with large cantilevered section on the Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
... (truncated) ...

 

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Hierarchy:
032-003043461[0001]/040-003043462
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 59
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
67 items
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Not applicable
Scripts:
Not applicable
Techniques:
Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print
Start Date:
1899
End Date:
1900
Date Range:
1899-1900
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 185 mm x 240 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Received from Records Department, 9 November 1933.

Material Type:
Photographs
Legal Status:
Not Known