NRS-20160 | Photographic Album-Construction of Pyrmont Bridge [Department of Public Works]

The photographs record the construction of Pyrmont Bridge and associated works and date from 1899 to 1903. On the front is lettered in gold leaf  'Pyrmont Bridge' and 'Percy Allan, M. INST. C.E.M.AM. SOC.C.E.'   Percy Allan was a Public Works engineer noted for timber bridge construction: he was Assistant to the Director-General from 1912-16 and Chief Engineer 1917-26.  The difference in the descriptions of photographs suggests that the album was collated from photographs in more than one collection. Some photographs are copies from NRS 4481 glass negatives [Government Printing Office] but not all the photographs of Pyrmont Bridge from NRS 4481 are contained in the album.

本批照片记录了派尔蒙特桥（Pyrmont Bridge）及其配套工程的建造历程，拍摄时间介于1899年至1903年之间。每张照片的正面均以金箔烫印有“派尔蒙特桥（Pyrmont Bridge）”与“珀西·艾伦（Percy Allan, M. INST. C.E.M.AM. SOC.C.E.）”字样。珀西·艾伦是一名以木结构桥梁建造见长的公共工程专家：1912年至1916年担任总干事助理，1917年至1926年升任总工程师。照片描述存在细节差异，这表明该相册是从多组馆藏照片中汇编整合而成。部分照片为馆藏编号NRS 4481玻璃底片的复刻件（源自政府印刷局（Government Printing Office）藏品），但该相册并未完整收录NRS 4481馆藏中所有与派尔蒙特桥相关的照片。