Flood-damaged railway embankment and building, India c.1890s.
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1900
Materials
Card
Measurements
229 x 272 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520766.7
Summary
Albumen print photograph mounted on heavy cream card, extracted from an album. The print depicts damage to a flooded railway line, showing a damaged railway embankment and building, on the Bengal Nagpur Railway, Sine Midnapur, Calcutta Extension. The image, taken from a bridge, shows a damaged earth embankment being shored-up by sandbags and wooden supports. Part of the river bank has been washed away and the building is surrounded by mounds of debris, with a single figure visible. Further down the rail track, is a rail handcart, with a figure sitting in it. This page from the album is on the reverse of 1520766.8
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