Construction of the Bhramani Bridge, Odisha, India, 1898/9.
Category
Photographs
Date
1897 - 1899
Materials
Paper
Measurements
142 x 198 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520769.32
Summary
Albumen print depicting the construction of the Bhranini (now Brahmani) bridge, Odisha, India in 1898/9 (landscape). It shows a distant view of the bridge with some of the piers completed and some of the spans erected. It is taken from the left hand river bank and shows in the foreground the width of the river that was bridged.
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