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Photo 430/58(23)

Record Id:

041-003085363

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-003085340

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025862941.0x001056

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 430/58(23)

Title:

Well No 7, [Curzon Bridge construction, Allahabad]. Photographer: Unknown

Scope & Content:

Genre: Historical Events

View of the well weighed down with old rails and pig-iron. Three European engineers are standing on top. Gales writes (see notes in Introduction): 'By the 24th April well No 7 had been sunk to a depth of 98 feet below low-water level, and was 2 feet in the clay...As neither chiselling and dredging, pumping, nor shaking with dynamite would move the well another inch, it was unloaded, and a section of pier was built upon it, in the full expectation that, with the additional weight of the stone masonry, and the load of rails and pig-iron which would be available for weighting by the time the section was built, there would be no difficulty in forcing the well down the last 3 feet. But although the surcharged load...was 1,000 tons, no sinking had resulted from 12 days' efforts up to the 29th June, and the well was stopped for the season'.

Subjects = bridge building; civil engineering; Curzon Collection; Public Works Department

Location = Allahabad; India; Uttar Pradesh

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003082259
040-003085340
041-003085363

Is part of:

Photo 430 : Curzon Collection
Photo 430/58 : Curzon Collection: 'The Curzon Bridge over the River Ganges at Allahabad. Allahabad-Fyzabad Railway'. Photographer(s): Unknown

Photo 430/58(23) : Well No 7, [Curzon Bridge construction, Allahabad]. Photographer: Unknown

Hierarchy:

032-003082259[0058]/040-003085340[0023]/041-003085363

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 430

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Start Date:

-9999

End Date:

-9999

Date Range:

Unspecified

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Format: Bound in Volume

Secondary Support: Card

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known

Subjects:

Curzon Bridge (Allahabad)
Curzon Collection
Named Collections