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Pier no. 4: Looking North
Board of Trade1879/1880
National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
North-facing photograph of a ruined pier. Part of a series of 91 black-and-white photographs of the wrecked piers of the Tay Bridge, which collapsed because of high winds on 28 December 1879. The series shows destroyed piers and girders, wreckage of the train and steam engine, and other parts salvaged from the Tay.
[Shelfmark Phot.la.17 - Image 17 of 91]
Details
- Title: Pier no. 4: Looking North
- Creator: Board of Trade
- Date Created: 1879/1880
- Subject Keywords: Tay Bridge, Scottish Bridges, Railroad Bridges, Railroad Disasters, Bridge Disasters
- Rights: the physical item used to create this digitised image is out of copyright
- External Link: Click to access all Tay Bridge Enquiry photographs online with National Library of Scotland
- Photographer: Board of Trade, commissioned by John Trayner
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