1 card photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 22 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Photographs
Notes:
Photographic memento of the 1879 Tay Bridge Disaster, in Dundee, Scotland, reproducing ticket stubs of passengers that died when a train plunged into the Tay Estuary. The legend at the foot of the photograph states: "These tickets were collected at St Fort Station, on 28th December, 1879, by Robert Morris, agent; Wm. Friend, ticket collector; and Alex. Inglis, porter, from passengers who lost their lives by the Fall of the Tay Bridge."