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259 x 204 mm. A view from the Stockade Bastion looking along the main street in Bhamo which runs parallel to the Irrawaddy. Bhamo, situated near the borders of western China was the furthest station serviced by the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...