Construction of the Mahandi and Bhranini bridges, India 1898/9.
Category
Photographs
Date
1898 - 1899
Materials
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520769
Summary
A group of pages from an album comprising 12 Albumen prints (on 7 leaves), supporting photographs of the construction of the Mahanuddy (now Mahandi) bridge in Cuttack, India in 1898/9, together with 22 loose prints depicting the construction of the Bhranini (now Brahmani) bridge Odisha, India in 1898/9.
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