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Call Number:

PH-00750

Collection Name:

A Series of Descriptive Photographs: Illustrating Processes and Progress of Work on the Forth Bridge in Course of Construction over the Firth of Forth, Scotland

Creator:

Phillips, Philip

No. of Items:

39 items in 1 album

Span Dates:

188-

Description:

Published photograph album, titled A Series of Descriptive Photographs: Illustrating Processes and Progress of Work on the Forth Bridge in Course of Construction over the Firth of Forth, Scotland (S.l.: s.n., 188-). "By Philip J. Phillips; engineers, Sir John Fowler & B. Baker, contractors, Tancred Arrol, 1884-1885." Included are 39 mounted platinum prints that document a phase of the construction of this cantilever railway bridge and include views of the caissons. The album contains the armorial bookplate of G. B. Wieland.

Accession No(s):

978:0054:0001-0039

Location(s):

f TG 64 F7 P554 HRC-P (978:0054:0001-0039)
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