View of the Union Suspension Bridge, Ottawa, Ontario

People:

Unknown (photographer)
H. H. Killaly (engineer)
Alexander Christie (architect)
E. Wilkinson (role unspecified)
Samuel Keefer (engineer)

Title:

View of the Union Suspension Bridge, Ottawa, Ontario

Date:

1860-1900

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 16.2 x 23.6 cm secondary support: 22.7 x 30.5 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:1254

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in black ink, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title imprinted - in the image, c.r.: "UNION BRIDGE / ERECTED BY THE / Board of [Works] of Canada / 1843 - 4 / SAMUEL KEEFER / [illeg.] / DAVID W.T. KINSON & SON / [illeg.] / ALEXANDER CHRISTIE / [illeg.]" [on a plaque on the bridge]

Location:

Ottawa; Ontario; Canada;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

suspension bridge

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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