Lansdowne Bridge across the Indus River at Sukkur in Sind Province.

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The Lansdowne Bridge across the River Indus in the Sind district at Sukkur in modern day Pakistan is the longest cantilever bridge in the World and was constructed between 1887 & 1889 to carry the North Western Railway which provided an important strategic and trade link between Lahore and the port city of Karachi on the Arabian Sea. These two 10 x 8½ ins photographs date from the early 1890s . Each is on an old card album leaf, one with a group of Europeans dressed for a fancy dress ball in Karachi 1890 and the other showing the bridge across a dramatic rift valley, identified on the card as Bridge over Chupper Rift -Itumai Ry.  The participants in the fancy dress ball are identified as Southey, Macnamara, Miss Satorius, Miss Edith Satorius, Miss Lambert, Miss Barrow, Mrs Vincent , Mrs Satorius.         nov26/1

Provenance: Leaves from a broken album which belonged to Surgeon John Blackburn Smith, Bombay Medical Service and date from 1890-93 when he was serving in Baluchistan.

 

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