Flood damaged railway line, c.1890s.
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1900
Materials
Card
Measurements
229 x 272 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520766.1
Summary
An albumen print photograph mounted on heavy cream card, extracted from an album. The image depicts damage to the railway line of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company, Sine Midnapur, Calcutta Extension, caused by flooding. The line on the right has been undermined by the flooding, whilst the line on the left is apparently undamaged.
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