10 Colorized Photos of Famous Landmarks Under Construction
1. THE HOOVER DAM, UNITED STATES c. 1935
2. THE EIFFEL TOWER, PARIS JULY 1888
3. THE TAJ MAHAL, INDIA c. 1942
Covered in bamboo scaffolding to disguise it from enemy bombers, the dome of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India, looks almost as if it is being built during WWII. Private First Class John C. Byrom, Jr., of Waco, Texas, trying to catch a goldfish in the marble-lined pool at the approach to the Taj Mahal. Observing are Corporal Anthony J. Scopelliti and Private First Class Ray Cherry
4. THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, UNITED STATES c. 1934.
The Golden Gate Bridge under construction, San Francisco, California.
5. NELSON’S COLUMN, LONDON APRIL 1844
Nelson’s Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London. This image suggests industrious advances in the construction of the column. However, when Talbot took this photograph the building work had actually been halted while the government took over the project from the building committee whose funds had run out. Talbot invented the negative/positive process for making photographs between 1835 and 1839. Any number of prints could be made of a single image from the negative.
6. TOWER BRIDGE, LONDON c. 1889
Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 and opened in 1894, to designs by Sir Horace Jones. It was designed so that the central section could be raised to allow the passage of ships to and from the busy wharves of London.
7. THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WORKSHOP, PARIS 1882
Workers build the Statue of Liberty inside French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s workshop in Paris. The background shows the carved arm of the statue. At the back (right) are smaller models of the arm and the head.
8. STONEHENGE, ENGLAND c. 1920
A view of a trilithon being re-erected during Lieutenant-Colonel Hawley’s excavations and renovations at Stonehenge in 1919 and 1920. The monument itself dates to circa 2000 B.C., although the site was in use much earlier than this.
9. MOUNT RUSHMORE, UNITED STATES MAY 31, 1932
Gutzon Borglum and superintendant inspecting work on the face of Washington, Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota.
10. THE SACRE-COEUR, PARIS 1880s
The bell-tower of the Sacre Coeur Basilica under construction on the Montmartre Hill in Paris.
