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4 sheets, Burmese script.

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240 x 370 mm, 2 sheets, 45 lines to a sheet. Copied in B.E. 1156 (October 1834).

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1 sheet.

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European paper notebook, 140 x 100 mm, 8 sheets, in Burmese and English.

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2 sheets.

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There are two copies of the list, a draft and a finished copy. On the latter is written, 'Some Bengalee Bramins at Ava furnished me with these lists of the countries and cities mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures with corresponding names in Bengalee Sanscrit. H. Burney' (12 pages).

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European paper; 5 sheets.

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153 x 114 mm. Showing a line of Burmese women with loads of fuel carried on their heads, standing on a gang plank waiting to board a steamer.

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...

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...

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...

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132 x 92 mm.

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91 x 130 mm.

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131 x 92 mm.

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132 x 91 mm.

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131 x 92 mm.

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132 x 89 mm. A cart pulled by oxen next to a hut.

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17 European paper books, stitched but not bound, 240 x 390 mm, 35 lines to a folio in black ink.

Parts 1-17. Covers period to B.E. 974 (1612 A.D.)

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Half-plate. (A Burmese woman) weaving silk.

Scope and Contents 148 x 195 mm. Three quarter length portrait of Major General Orde Charles Wingate in bush uniform, probably taken in Burma. Wingate entered the Royal Artillery in 1923; he was attached to the Sudan Defence Force 1928-33 and served in Palestine and Trans-Jordan 1936-39. He was active behind enemy lines in Ethiopia in 1940-41 and was then selected to take charge of units to operate behind enemy lines in Burma. For this task he was promoted Temporary Brigadier General with the title of...

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Outside the Arakwan Pagoda, Mandalay.

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European paper notebook, 210 x 330 mm, 8 sheets. Copied in B.E. 1194 (1832 A.D.).

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...

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Caption 'overprinted will make a good planturotyte?'

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album containing photographic prints and coloured reproductions. Prints 2-62 are coloured reproductions from Kelly, R. Talbot (1905) Burma painted and described, London : Adam and Charles Black. The remainder are original photographs by Thomas Harry Goldsworthy Stevens. The prints mainly measure approximately 100 x 75 mm, although some are larger. The album is interleaved with sheets on which are typed captions, up to print 261. Photographs beyond this point are uncaptioned. The...