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Preview	Category	Catalogue Number	Collection	Title	Date	Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 57587 PO	General Collection	Photograph of original Tay Bridge from S. (after collapse)	c. 12/1879	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 57588 PO	General Collection	Photograph of the original Tay Bridge from interior showing the high girders of the central section.	c. 1879	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	D 81806 S	General Collection. Glass Lantern Slides	View of the Old and the New Tay Bridge side by side. Insc. 'Tay Bridge. No. 14 - Old & New Structures. 18 May 1886.' Lantern slide.	18/5/1886	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	AN 2209	Copies of records from St Andrews Preservation Trust, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland	Copy of an historic photograph showing a general view of the bridge after collapse in 1879. Insc: 'Tay Bridge from S, (After Accident.) 1855. J,V'.	1879	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38634	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Approach from Dundee, comprimising lattice girders with railway carried on upper boom - note various types of braced iron column supports.	2/1877	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38617	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Range of twin-column brick piers extending from South bank; Wormit Bay jetty in foreground.	3/1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38635	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Bridge viewed from North bank, three of central spans in position; note lattice iron towers on brick bases supporting the intermediate series of girders.	6/1877	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38612	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Wormit bay side; twin-column piers in various stages of being raised to ultimate level (land-piers on left are of solid brick).		Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38613	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Wormit side; later stage in erection of twin-column piers showing conjunction with deeper intermediate range of lattice girders.	1877	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38639	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. 'The first passenger-carrying train to cross the bridge - the directors special leaving the South end on 26 September. 1878'. (ref Thomas J, Tay Bridge Disaster, 1972, p.86).	26/9/1878	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38618	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Interior view of high-girder section; note transverse bracing at head, and side bracing.	5/1877	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38614	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. South end of bridge showing respectively, solid brick land-piers, twin-column brick piers, and subsequent change to iron towers towards centre of river. Note flanged iron pipes laid out in front of foundry, in readiness for building up into columns to form the iron towers.	11/1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38633	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. View from South showing completed approach curve from the Dundee side and deeper intermediate range of girders in foreground.	11/1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38621	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Wormit jetty showing fabrication of foundation caissons in foreground, and one of lattice girders on jetty. Note cylinder sections in immediate foreground.	1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38620	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Wormit jetty and iron foundry above.	1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38619	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Junction between low-girders and high-girder section, one span (far right) in process of being raised into position.	1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38627	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Artists drawing of Bouch's twin-column brick pier in process of erection, after the initial method of sinking two separate 8.1/2 dia iron cylinders (caissons), had been modified in favour of two cylinders joined by a common base. The section shows men progressively lifting out the sand from river-bed and then lining the cylinder with brick; the resultant 4ft diameter shaft was subsequently filled solid with concrete. The man standing on top of brickwork was a 'clayer', his job being to plug and leaking parts with clay. Boilers for lifting engines seen at summit.	1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38628	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. One of the twin-cylinder (caissons) being floated out by pontoon. (Drawing inaccurate in that brick-lining, as shown, was not built until cylinders sunk into position?).	1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38632	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Outer limits of approach curve from North bank in course of construction. Lattice structure mounded near end of bridge might be travelling crane?	3/1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38631	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. North end, showing large-span bowstring girder.	3/1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38615	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. East side of bridge viewed from South bank overlooking works jetties at Wormit Bay. Solid brick and twin-column piers in foreground indicate extent of bridge built on rock foundation, before design changed to lattice iron towers, Autumn 1873. Brick foundry in foreground built by the original contractor Charles de Bergue & Company. One of high girder spans can be seen alongside jetty.	7/1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38626	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. One of pontoons used for floating out caissons and brick bases.	1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38622	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Iron caisson in readiness for floating out by pontoon.	1876	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	A 38610	Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House	Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Wormit side, early stages (c.1871) in bridge construction.	1871	Item Level