Tunnel and bridge on the Northwestern Railway near Quetta – Vintage Print
![Tunnel and bridge on the Northwestern Railway near Quetta, [1895] — historic image](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c9/c9276a9e5295-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic image captures Tunnel and bridge on the Northwestern Railway near Quetta in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Tunnel and bridge on the Northwestern Railway near Quetta
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A tunnel mouth and a bridge on the North-Western Railway near Quetta make this slide's subject, a rail line that climbed through rugged hills on the frontier of British India. William Henry Jackson, the American photographer, made the slide during his around-the-world railway survey for the World's Transportation Commission in 1894 and 1895. Quetta's rail link through the Bolan Pass was a major engineering project of the 1880s, and the hand coloring adds color to a scene of stone, iron, and steep terrain.
| Created / published | [1895] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 slide : lantern, hand colored ; 3.25 x 4 in. |
| Genre | Lantern slides Hand colored. |
| Notes | Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | North-Western Railroad Company. Railroad bridges. Tunnels.Pakistan--Quetta. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,493 × 3,116 px · prints to 15 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215768 |
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