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Call Number:

PH-00867

Collection Name:

Manchester Ship Canal. Making the Waterway

Creator:

Birtles, J.

No. of Items:

10 items

Span Dates:

1886-1891 (ca.)

Description:

Folio, titled Manchester Ship Canal. Making the Waterway, containing 10 gelatin silver prints by J. Birtles of Warrington. The photographs document construction of the Manchester Ship Canal from the project’s start in 1886 to 1891, three years prior to its dedication.

Accession No(s):

964:0348:0001-0010; Gernsheim Collection.

Location(s):

f TC 664 M2 M263 HRC-P (964:0348:0001-0010)
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Item(s):
Artist/Maker Birtles, J.
Title Letting in the water at Ellsmere Port with E. L. Williams and Engineers.
Date between 1886 and 1891
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions image: 26.6 x 36.1 cm; 10 1/2 x 14 1/5 in; mount: 43.1 x 55.9 cm; 17 x 22 in
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Accession
Number		 964:0348:0001
Artist/Maker Birtles, J.
Title Making Latchford Locks, [v]iew from Embankment.
Date between 1886 and 1891
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions image: 26.6 x 36 cm; 10 1/2 x 14 1/5 in; mount: 43.1 x 55.9 cm; 17 x 22 in
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Accession
Number		 964:0348:0002
Artist/Maker Birtles, J.
Title Acton Grange Cutting showing embankment for the Viaduct on the L. & N. W. Ry.
Date between 1886 and 1891
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions image: 26.3 x 34.7 cm; 10 2/5 x 13 7/10 in; mount: 43.1 x 55.9 cm; 17 x 22 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0348:0003
Artist/Maker Birtles, J.
Title Bridgewater Locks, near Runcorn.
Date between 1886 and 1891
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions image: 26.6 x 36 cm; 10 1/2 x 14 1/5 in; mount: 43.1 x 55.8 cm; 17 x 22 in
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Accession
Number		 964:0348:0004
Artist/Maker Birtles, J.
Title Sluices at Weston, largest in the World.
Date between 1886 and 1891
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions image: 27.9 x 36 cm; 11 x 14 1/5 in; mount: 43.1 x 55.9 cm; 17 x 22 in
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Accession
Number		 964:0348:0005
Artist/Maker Birtles, J.
Title Runcorn Bridge, and finshed portion of Cutting. The last [l]oad.
Date between 1886 and 1891
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions image: 26.6 x 36 cm; 10 1/2 x 14 1/5 in; mount: 43.1 x 55.9 cm; 17 x 22 in
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Accession
Number		 964:0348:0006
Artist/Maker Birtles, J.
Title Wreck of the Bridgewater Locks.
Date between 1886 and 1891
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions image: 26.6 x 36 cm; 10 1/2 x 14 1/5 in; mount: 43.1 x 55.8 cm; 17 x 22 in
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Accession
Number		 964:0348:0007
Artist/Maker Birtles, J.
Title Pile driving, making the Gantry, looking across the Mersey to Widnes.
Date between 1886 and 1891
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions image: 22.5 x 35.1 cm; 8 9/10 x 13 4/5 in; mount: 43.1 x 55.8 cm; 17 x 22 in
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Accession
Number		 964:0348:0008
Artist/Maker Birtles, J.
Title Barton Swing Aqueduct.
Date between 1886 and 1891
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions image: 26 x 35.3 cm; 10 1/5 x 13 9/10 in; mount: 43.1 x 55.8 cm; 17 x 22 in
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Accession
Number		 964:0348:0009
Artist/Maker Birtles, J.
Title Dredger at work, Ellesmere Port.
Date between 1886 and 1891
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions image: 26.6 x 36 cm; 10 1/2 x 14 1/5 in; mount: 43.1 x 55.9 cm; 17 x 22 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0348:0010

See Also:

J. Birtles (photographic print collection)