Evelyn George Carey (1858-1932)

CHRONICLING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FORTH BRIDGE, SCOTLAND, 1885-1887. One platinum print and 4 albumen prints mounted to thick blue card, each image measuring approx. 280 x 360mm, card measuring approx. 380 x 455mm. The five prints presented here are each titled and dated in the negative as follows:

The Forth Bridge, Drawing Loft 200 x 600 Feet, August 4, 1885, No.80

The Forth Bridge, Queensferry NW Caisson, June 9, 1885, No.72

The Forth Bridge, The Drill Roads, July 27 1885, No.79

The Forth Bridge, Drawing Loft 200 x 600 Feet, August 4, 1885, No.80

The Forth Bridge, Fife Main Pier From Top of Carvie Main Pier, August 18, 1887, No.203

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.