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Photo 383/1

Record Id:

040-003070398

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003070397

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025720789.0x00063e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 383/1

Title:

The Nilgiri Railway Photographs Photographer(s): Boesinger, Philip

Scope & Content:

Dark green half-leather bound album (considerably scuffed), measuring 232x468mm with title as above stamped in gold on front cover. The front endpapers contain the library label of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a label recording the album's presentation by W. J. Weightman M.I.C.E. (Chief Engineer to the Nilgiri Railway Company) to that library. The album was received by the Institution of Civil Engineers on 27 October 1898, and transferred at some later date to the India Office (where it was originally placed in the Map Collection).

The album contains a series of views of the line, embankments, cuttings, bridges and stations along the sixteen miles of its length between Mettapolian (modern Mettuppalaiyam) and Coonor. Much of this material is duplicated in Photo 383/2.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003070397
040-003070398

Is part of:

Photo 383 : Photographs of the Nilgiri Railway. Photographer(s): Boesinger, Philip

Photo 383/1 : The Nilgiri Railway Photographs Photographer(s): Boesinger, Philip

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003070397[0001]/040-003070398

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

27 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1896

End Date:

1898

Date Range:

c 1897-1898

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 95 mm x 73 mm to 230 mm x 290 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Found in IOLR Map Collection, 1974 and transferred to Photograph Collection.

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known

Names:

Boesinger, Philip