Evelyn George Carey (1858-1932)

GROUP OF ALBUMEN PRINTS CHRONICLING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FORTH BRIDGE, SCOTLAND, 1884-1887. Five (5) albumen prints mounted to thick blue card, each image measuring approx. 290 x 370mm, card measuring approx. 380 x 455mm. The five prints presented here are each titled and dated in the negative as follows:

The Directors of the Forth Bridge, April 15th, 1884

The Forth Bridge, Sounding Around Sites of Deep Piers Off Inchgarvie, June 18, 1884, No.31

The Forth Bridge, Caisson Of Inch Garvie NE Main Pier Looking East, April 11th, 1884, No.23

The Forth Bridge, Inch-Garvie, Looking West, July 20, 1885, No.75

The Fort Bridge, From South Shore, Oct 13, 1887, No.209

Evelyn George Carey initally trained as an assistant engineer during the construction of the Forth Bridge, but in1883 he also began working as the official photographer on the project. Carey sequentially photographed the construction progress through the project's completion in 1890, at which point the Forth Bridge was the longest bridge in the world.