273 •(BENGAL STEELWORKS CONSTRUCTION)
A thick album entitled Steel Corporation of Bengal Ltd., Napuria Works with approximately 155 rich photographs documenting the construction of the Napuria plant by Burn & Company of Calcutta.
Featuring sharp images depicting hoards of construction workers preparing foundations and erecting frameworks for factory buildings, including mill houses, power houses, gas and cooling towers, melting shops, a Dolomite plant, and more. Also present are two large panoramas illustrating the vast expanse of the entire plant. Silver prints, the images measuring 6¼x8 1/8  inches (15.9x20.6 cm.), with two measuring 6x27¾ and 6x47¾ inches (15.2x70.5 and 15.2x121.3 cm.), nearly all mounted recto/verso to black pages, the panoramas with the photographer's hand stamp on verso, most with captions, and all with dates, in white ink, on pages. Oblong 4to, black leatherette with debossed gilt-lettering; twin-bolt binding. 1938-39

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