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Title

[Victoria Bridge, Montreal, with a locomotive]. 

Arrangement structure

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Item (linked) part of

Canadian Historical Prints Collection [graphic material] (R13133-0-7-E)

Date(s)

[1878]

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 photograph : 18.2 x 40.5 cm.

Language of material

English

Scope and content

This photograph is likely of a watercolour, the original location of which is unknown. Item is of unknown provenance, acquired sometime before the initial cataloguing date of 5/6/24, written on the verso. Image depicts Montreal's Victoria Bridge, with a locomotive emitting smoke going across it. In the foreground, there are four people on the banks of the water, and in the distance sailboats are visible. On the verso, there is pasted on a photocopied reproduction from the booklet, "Montreal in Half-Tone" depicting the old and new Victoria Bridges.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
28 Item no. assigned by LAC 311
90: Open
Archival reference no.
R13133-325-2-E

Terms of use

Copyright : expired Credit : Notman & Sandham, Library and Archives Canada, R13133-311

Additional name(s)

Artist: Notman & Sandham.

Additional information

Related materials
For a related image, with same initial cataloguing date, see R13133-310.

Signatures and inscriptions
Recto, l.l. within image: Notman & Sandham 1878 Recto, u.r., in manuscript pencil: 382a Verso, u.c., photomechanical reproduction: The New Victoria Jubilee Bridge, Reconstructed in 1899; l.c.: The Old Victoria Tubular Bridge [paragraph of text about the construction of the bridges]

Subject heading

1. GEOG - QUE., MONTREAL - BRIDGES, VICTORIA BRIDGE.
2. SUBJ. - Transportation : Train.

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

3974281