PHOTOGRAPHS : HARLAND & WOLFF COLLECTION

Title: Hull drawing office with naval architects
Object Name: Photograph; glass plate negative
Maker: Welch, Robert John (1859-1936); Harland and Wolff (Primary maker)
Welch, Robert John (1859-1936) (photographer)
Date Made: 1901 (circa)
1912(circa)
1901 (circa)
Place Made: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast
Belfast
Description: Photograph, Harland and Wolff glass plate negative. subject : Drawing Office No. 1, built c.1885. Apprentice draughtsman Samuel James Donnelly is included, immediately behind the man in shirt sleeves in the left foreground. Sam started on 12 March 1900, when 15 years old and died in service in January 1948. In this photograph the arched windows at the back are still fully open to the sky. By c.1912 the office behind had been extended, and the new building blocked the light from these windows. Some claim that the man in the shirtsleeves is Roderick Chisholm, who was called upon at the last minute to accompany Thomas Andrews on the Titanic.
Catalogue Number: HOYFM.HW.H501
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