Rive sud : travaux vus depuis le nouveau pont Asylum. - 27 septembre 1921.

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Held by: Ville de Montréal. Section des archives via Archives de Montréal (Ville de Montréal)
Dates: 27 septembre 1921 (indexed as 1921)
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Scope & content: Vue générale vers le sud-est de la zone de travaux de la rive sud, prise depuis le pont Asylum. On voit de nombreux ouvriers travailler avec des chevaux tirant des carrioles. Le sol est jonché de pierres et de planches. Au centre, un ouvrier actionne un engin à vapeur. On distingue des bâtiments, au loin. La photographie portait originellement le numéro 1251. Titre original de l'index : "Contract no9 looking S.E. from the centre of the new Asylum Bridge - showing the method of working and placing in the consolidated fill. - Sept 27th./21."
In the picture: Aqueduct Carriage Construction Construction Site Construction Worker Excavation Exterior View Horse Horse-drawn Vehicle Landscape Power Line Public Works Smoke Streetscape Trench Water Supply WorkerTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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Extent: 1 photographie : négatif sur verre : n&b. ; 17,7 x 12,6 cm.
Format: Photograph
What the image shows: A black-and-white photograph looking across a wide excavation site on flat open ground, with a deep trench running through the middle. Workers stand and move about among piles of broken stone and scattered planks, and several horses hitched to carts or wagons are working on the site. A column of dark smoke rises from a steam engine or pipe in the foreground, and a line of utility poles and low buildings with a tree line appears in the distance under a hazy sky.Described automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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