Flooding on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, c.1890s.
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1900
Materials
Card
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520766
Summary
A group of pages from an album, comprising 8 Albumen prints (on 5 leaves), photos of the Bengal Nagpur Railway Company, Sine Midnapur Calcutta Extension, depicting havoc caused by flooding to an unidentified section of a railway line and bridge.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986