Description of Content
Group of about 30 bricklayers and other construction workers posing at the construction site of a railway bridge in Bairnsdale. At rear a timber scaffold is in use for the construction of a brick retaining wall, forming part of the wingwalls of a metal girder railway bridge. In the foreground are several wooden wheelbarrows and a single tipping hopper truck on a steel-railed construction tramway. In the background an engineer or foreman is leaning against the end of a large riveted metal girder resting on a ballast capstone on top of the brick abutment.
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Acquisition Information
Copied from E. J. Conn, 09 Nov 1987
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Place & Date Depicted
Bairnsdale-Orbost Railway, Bairnsdale, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, circa 1910
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Format
Negative, 35 mm, Black & White
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Classification
Rail transport, Railway infrastructure - bridges, Construction sites
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Type of item
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Keywords
Abutments, Bridges, Building & Construction, Bricklayers, Bricklaying, Cement Barrels, Construction Tramways, Construction Workers, Hats, Iron Girder Bridges, Light Railways, Railway Trolleys, Rivetted Steel Girders, Scaffolding, Smoking, Tramway Trolleys, Wheelbarrows, Work Clothing
