[Victoria Terminus Building, Mumbai]

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1860s–70s · Albumen silver print from glass negative · Photographs

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.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1860s–70s

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gift of Matthew Dontzin, 1985