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Photo 96/2(31)
- Record Id:
- 041-003047120
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003046988
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x0015f1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100191024261.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 96/2(31)
- Title:
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K.H.W. [Karachi Harbour Works]. Memorial block. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Portrait Photography
Engineers gathered round the block which reads: 'This memorial block 27 tons weight and similar to those 1850 in number of which the breakwater superstrucure is built was placed by the Titan crane on 17th January 1874 in the presence of His Excellency the Honourable Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, KCB, Governor of Bombay. Thus is recorded the completion of the Manora Breakwater which is the most important feature of the Kurrachee Harbour Improvement Works planned in 1858 by the late James Walker...Civil Engineer. The first block was set on 1st November 1870 by Colonel Sir William Lockyer Merewether, KCSI & CB, Commissioner in Sind. The last block was set on 22nd February 1873. William Parkes...Consulting Engineer; William Henry Price...Superintendant of Works; George William Lowe, Foreman of Mason Work; William Sangster, Foreman Engineer; Bhumaya Saenna, Supervisor; John Humby, Subengineer'.
Subjects = breakwaters; civil engineering; Crofton Collection; harbour works
Location = Manora; Pakistan; Sindh
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003046988
040-003047089
041-003047120 - Is part of:
- Photo 96 : Crofton Collection
Photo 96/2 : Crofton Collection: Public works including the Manora Breakwater and the River Son canal system. Photographer(s): Michie and Company
Photo 96/2(31) : K.H.W. [Karachi Harbour Works]. Memorial block. Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003046988[0002]/040-003047089[0031]/041-003047120
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 96
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1874
- End Date:
- 1874
- Date Range:
- 1874
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known