Egyptian Arch, Newry, Co. Down, 1990

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:00:40 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Taken by photographer, Liam Murtagh, who was absolutely excellent and presumably waited patiently until he could capture a vehicle passing under the arch at just the same point as the cart in the original Lawrence photograph.

You can compare this view of the Egyptian Arch with its companion photo taken approximately 85 years earlier as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.

For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.

Date: Monday, 10 September 1990 at 11:15 (weather conditions - sunny)

NLI Ref.: LPP_13/3

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Egyptian Arch, Newry, Co. Down, 1990