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Crown Agents collection... Photograph albums compiled by Crown Agents, 1890-1981


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  • Crown Agents collection
  • Photograph albums compiled by Crown Agents, 1890-1981

  • 1999/221/1
  • This is a series of bound photograph albums, compiled by the Crown Agents in the course of their work providing services and goods relating to the railway, to various countries within the British Empire. The first 62 volumes depict railways and railway buildings (eg stations, workshops) in the course of construction, and include some views of scenery, street scenes, and local workers. Most of the photographs are of bridges, viaducts, cuttings and tunnels. Countries represented include parts of Africa, the Carribean, South East Asia and Hong Kong. The remaining volumes have been compiled by the Engineering Inspection department within the Crown Agents, and mainly contain shots of railway locomotives, carriages, wagons, railcars, bogies, and cranes. These were built by engineering companies within the UK to fulfill contract orders submitted by various colonial governments. The Crown Agents managed the arrangement and completion of these contracts. Therefore most of these photographs would have been taken in the UK, before the items were shipped out to the relevant country.
  • 1890-1981
  • Nigeria
  • Kenya
  • Uganda
  • Ceylon
  • Federated Malay States
  • East Africa
  • Iraq
  • Hong Kong
  • Singapore
  • Jamaica
  • 115 volumes
  • 115 bound albums containing photographs glued on to the pages. The binding is loose on some of the volumes.
  • Open
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  • Series

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Lagos Bridges and Railway, Album No. 1 Lagos Bridges and Railway, Album No. 2 Lagos Bridges and Railway, Album No. 3 Lagos Bridges and Railway, Album No. 4 Lagos Bridges and Railway, Album No. 4A Album of Marine Photographs Nigerian Railways, Album No. 1 Nigerian Railways, Album No. 2 Nigerian Railways, Album No. 3 Nigerian Railways, Album No. 4 Nigerian Eastern Railway, Album No. 1 Nigerian Eastern Railway, Album No. 2 Cyprus Public Works, Album No. 1 Railways - Various, Album No. 1 Straits Settlements Singapore - Johore Railway, Album No. 1 Straits Settlements Singapore - Johore Railway, Album No. 2 Straits Settlements Railways, Album No. 3 Straits Settlements Railways, Album No. 4 Federated Malay States Railways, Album No. 1 Federated Malay States Railways, Album No. 2 Federated Malay States Railway, Album No. 3 Federated Malay States Railway, Album No. 4 Perak Railways, Album No. 1 British Honduras, Album No. 1 Trinidad Railways, Album No. 1 Hong Kong, Album No. 1 Gold Coast Tarkwa Railway, Album No. 1 Gold Coast Tarkwa Railway, Album No. 2 Gold Coast Tarkwa Railway, Album No. 3 Gold Coast Tarkwa Railway, Album No. 4 Gold Coast Railway, Album No. 5 Gold Coast Railway, Album No. 6 Sierra Leone Railway, Album No. 1 Sierra Leone Railway, Album No. 2 Sierra Leone Railway, Album No. 3 Sierra Leone Railway, Album No. 4 Sierra Leone Railway, Album No. 5 Sierra Leone Railway, Album No. 6 British Central African Railways, Album No. 1 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 1 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 2 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 3 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 4 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 5 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 6 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 7 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 8 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 9 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 10 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 11 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 12 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 13 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 14 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 15 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 17 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 18 Ceylon Railway, Album No. 19 Lagos Water Works, Album No. 1 Southern Nigeria Lagos Water Supply, Album No. 1 Southern Nigeria Lagos Water Supply, Album No. 1 Southern Nigeria Lagos Water Supply, Album No. 2 Nigerian Eastern Railway showing route from Port Harcourt to Udi Coal Fields Jamaica Railways Railway locomotives, carriages, wagons and trolleys Railway carriages, wagons and steam cranes Railway locomotives, carriages, wagons, tractor and railcar Railway carriages and wagons Railway carriages and wagons Railway locomotives Federated Malay States Railway carriages and wagons Federated Malay States Railway locomotives, carriages and wagons Railway locomotives and carriages Railway carriages and wagons for the Gold Coast (Ghana) Railway locomotives, carriages, wagons and steam cranes Railway locomotives Railway carriages and wagons for Nigeria Railway locomotives, carriages, wagons and steam cranes Railway carriages and wagons for Nigeria Railway locomotives Railway carriages and wagons Railway locomotives, carriages and wagons Railway carriages and wagons for the Gold Coast (Ghana) Railway locomotives, carriages and wagons Railway carriages for Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Railway locomotives for Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Railway locomotives and shunting tractor for Federated Malay States Railway Locomotives Railway Locomotives for Tanganyika (Tanzania) Railway locomotives Railway locomotives Railway carriages, wagons, railcars, and cranes Railway carriages and wagons for Federated Malay States Railway carriages, wagons, and railcars for Nigeria Railways, carriages, wagons, and cranes for Tanganyika (Tanzania) Railway carriages and wagons for Kenya and Uganda Railway carriages, wagons and railcars Photograph album containing railway locomotives compiled by 'Mr Campbell' Railway locomotives, carriages and wagons compiled by A Campbell Railway locomotives, carriages and wagons, compiled by A Campbell Railway locomotives, carriages, wagons and other machinery Cranes and other machinery built for use on the railways Cranes and other machinery built for use on the railways Railway locomotives, carriages and wagons for Nyasaland (Malawi) Railway locomotives (steam) Railway Locomotives (Diesel) Railway Locomotives (Diesel) Cranes Railway wagons and oil tanks Railway carriages Railway Wagons Railway carriages Railway wagons Railway carriages Railway Locomotives (Diesel) Nigerian Railway Corporation, photographs for carriages and railcars