Lessart Viaduct on the Rance River, Louis Lafon, October 1879

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Lessart Viaduct on the Rance River, October 1879, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: x cm (14 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.), Photographs, Louis Lafon (French, active 1870s–90s), In April 1858 the director of the École des Ponts et Chaussées, the French civil-engineering school, observed that photography “is by now employed on many work sites, not only to record the details but even to see the state of progress of the construction

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Size: 5112px × 3974px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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