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Photo 59/2
- Record Id:
- 040-003043530
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003043461
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x0007eb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 59/2
- Title:
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Burma Railways Collection: Construction of the Gokteik Viaduct (part 2). Photographer(s): Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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Red quarter-leather bound (modern rebinding by India Office Library 1969) album measuring 260x320mm. The first part of the album (prints 1-35) continues the documentation of the construction of the Gokteik Viaduct started in Photo 59/1. These prints are, like those in the preceding album, numbered and dated in the negative but otherwise uncaptioned. Prints 36-39 show details of railway locomotives and trucks (undated and uncaptioned); while prints 40-53 show construction work on the Pegu-Moulmein and Henzada-Kyangyin extensions of the Burma railway system (c.1906).
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003043461
040-003043530 - Is part of:
- Photo 59 : Burma Railways Collection. Photographer(s): Klier, Philip Adolphe
Photo 59/2 : Burma Railways Collection: Construction of the Gokteik Viaduct (part 2). Photographer(s): Unknown - Contains:
- Photo 59/2(1) : [Gantry crane at work on the Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(2) : [The Gokteik Viaduct from the south.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(3) : [View along the line on the Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(4) : [Steel lattice pier on the Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(5) : [Steel lattice pier on the Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(6) : [Gokteik Viaduct from the northern end.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(7) : [Steel lattice piers on the Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(8) : [Gokteik Viaduct crossing the gorge at the foot of the valley.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(9) : [The Gokteik Viaduct from the river.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(10) : [The Gokteik Viaduct from the river.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(11) : [Gantry crane at work on the Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(12) : [Close-up view of steel lattice piers across gorge beneath the Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(13) : [Box girders being positioned on the Gokteik Viaduct at] Bents 25 26. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(14) : Box girder for bent 25 [Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(15) : [View along top of Gokteik Viaduct, looking south.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(16) : [View along top of Gokteik Viaduct, looking south.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(17) : [Close-up of steel lattice piers at head of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(18) : [Gokteik Viaduct crossing the gorge at the foot of the valley.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(19) : [Close-up view of gantry crane at head of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(20) : [Close-up view of gantry crane at head of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(21) : [Gantry crane at head of Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(22) : [Head of the Gokteik Viaduct, view from valley floor.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(23) : [Head of the Gokteik Viaduct, view from valley floor.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(24) : [Head of the Gokteik Viaduct, view from valley floor.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 59/2(25) : [Head of the Gokteik Viaduct.] Photographer: Unknown
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Click here to View / search full list of parts of Photo 59/2 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003043461[0002]/040-003043530
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 59
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 52 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1906
- Date Range:
- 1900-1906
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Appointment Required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 110 mm x 155 mm to 295 mm x 210 mm
- Source of Acquisition:
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Received from Records Department, 9 November 1933.
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known