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[Victoria Terminus Building, Mumbai]

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Frederick W. Stevens designed this building for the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, to serve as its main train station in Bombay. The style combines the Venetian Gothic popular in England at the time with elements of Indian architecture, and is built in the local red sandstone. A thirteen-foot personification of Progress, raising her arm toward the skies, tops the central dome. The Terminus opened in 1887 in time to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

Not on view

Public Domain

Object Details

Artist: Unknown

Date: 1860s–70s

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

Dimensions: 18.3 x 23.6 cm (7 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

Classification: Photographs

Credit Line: Gift of Matthew Dontzin, 1985

Accession Number: 1985.1168.11

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on print, verso UL: "25"
Matthew Dontzin

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Essays
Nineteenth-Century Court Arts in India

Photographs (36,239)
Unknown (4,423)
Albumen silver prints (9,324)
Photographs (47,259)
A.D. 1800–1900 (112,700)

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