Construction of the Bhramani Bridge, Odisha, India, 1898.
Category
Photographs
Date
1898 - 1899
Materials
Paper
Measurements
20 x 145 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520769.21
Summary
Albumen print depicting the construction of the Bhranini (now Brahmani) bridge, Odisha, India in 1898/9 (portrait). It shows the errecting of a girder - End View. On verso written in pencil 'Bhranini Bridge Girder Errecting-End View, 10. 12.98'. The number 9 circled in top left corner.
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