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Half-plate. Girls are dressed in rose-coloured silk. Walls are white. At bottom is a reflection of the inside of the roof. (Fisher). [Looking across ornamental pool towards girls reclining on verandah].

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints measuring approximately 210 x 160 mm mounted in an album bound in padded red leather and inscribed on the front cover VM [Victoria Mary] surmounted by a coronet. The end papers have a label 'Bourne and Shepherd : Artists, Photographers and Publishers. Calcutta, Simla and Bombay.' This album deals with architectural views in Gwalior, Orchha, Lucknow, Mandalay, Rangoon, Trichinopoly [i.e. Tiruchchirappalli], Tanjore, Madura, Ellora, Ajanta, Benares, Nepal, Palitana,...

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints measuring approximately 210 x 160 mm mounted in an album bound in padded red leather and inscribed on the front cover VM [Victoria Mary] surmounted by a coronet. The end papers have a label 'Bourne and Shepherd : Artists, Photographers and Publishers. Calcutta, Simla and Bombay.' This album deals with architectural views in Gwalior, Orchha, Lucknow, Mandalay, Rangoon, Trichinopoly [i.e. Tiruchchirappalli], Tanjore, Madura, Ellora, Ajanta, Benares, Nepal, Palitana,...

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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100 x 76 mm. Showing a figure (possibly Williams) standing on the verandah of a bungalow, with a younger man in front of the house making adjustments to a large camera mounted on a tripod.

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98 x 75 mm. Showing a man half-hidden beneath the black hood of his camera.

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Kradat phlao, 339 x 777 mm.

Phraya Phiphatkosa was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and younger brother of the Minister. On behalf of the six ministers of the Thai Government, he refuses Burney's request for military or logistical support in the First Anglo-Burmese War.

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Kradat phlao, 404 x 693 mm.

Like RCMS 65/5/2, this letter rejects Burney’s request for military or logistical support in the First Anglo-Burmese War.

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Kradat phlao, 332 x ca 175 mm.

This letter relates to Burney’s request for aid during the First Anglo-Burmese War.

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Kradat phlao, 351 x 705 mm.

Communicates the King's final refusal to Burney's repeated requests for military aid during the First Anglo-Burmese War.

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Kradat phlao, 366 x 357 mm.

Letter congratulating Burney on his appointment as Assistant Commissioner of the province of Tavoy in the Tenasserim Division of British Burma (22 Apr 1828). Phraya Phiphat thanks Burney for a gift of perfume and assents to proposals for the promotion of trade with Siam.

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Kradat phlao, 348 x ca 860 mm.

Letter relating to overland trade between Siam and Tavoy.

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Kradat phlao, 346 x 875 mm.

This letter deals with the movement of persons and commerce across the Thai/British Burma border.

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: 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...

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98 x 70 mm. Showing a row of long canoes being poled up a Burmese river.

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160 x 113 mm. Showing a wooden temple raised on poles, with intricately carved decorations.

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162 x 114 mm. Showing a wooden temple raised on poles, with intricately carved decorations.

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Half-plate. [Sawbwa seated on verandah of house].

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159 x 111 mm. A view looking along the riverbank (with covered canoes in the foreground) towards European houses and, on a hill, the spires of temples.

Scope and Contents Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...

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No author or publication details (42 pages).

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...