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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99 x 73 mm. View looking across the river, with Burmese house boats moored in the foreground.

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100 x 75 mm. View looking across the river, with Burmese house boats moored in the foreground

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100 x 71 mm. Showing house boats (of less ornate design than those seen in Y3029C/78-80) moored by the side of the river.

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146 x 101 mm. A view looking across wharves towards shipping anchored in the harbour. The annotation on the reverse states 'Photo by J. Jackson, Rangoon'. The date attribution is based on the observation that the vessels in this image are all steam-powered.

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99 x 72 mm. Showing a Burmese man on the river bank. He is standing among what appears to be the ruins of a hut.

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...

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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Found in various situations (nearly all with the square writing of old Burmese) Pagan Museum.

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204 x 153 mm. A view looking westward across the Great Royal Lake and Dalhousie Park, with the spire of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda visible in the distance. Photograph by Watts and Skeen.

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205 x 153 mm. A view looking across the Great Royal Lake, with the spire of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda visible in the distance. Photograph by Watts and Skeen.

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European paper notebook, 190 x 230 mm, 5 sheets. Copied in B.E. 1190 (1828 A.D.).

Scope and Contents Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...

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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273 x 216 mm. View of a reclining Buddha and two other carved images in a temple (probably the Shwe Dagon) in Rangoon. Photographer unknown, probably Watts and Skeen or J. Jackson.

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Early morning. [View looking along Irrawaddy, with town and hills in distance].

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365 x 265 mm watercolour.

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Captions for the lantern slides are those written on the slides themselves.

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152 x 103 mm. A man in a boat on the Sandoway River.

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152 x 104 mm. Three people with two boats at the river's edge.

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79 x 55 mm. Three people with two boats at the river's edge.

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178 x 124 mm. Sawbwa of Kentung (S. Shan State, Burma) 1897-. In seated portrait group.

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125 x 176 mm. Sawbwa of South Hsenwi (Burma) 1891-. Full length seated portrait.

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158 x 115 mm. A view looking down on the river, crossed by a wooden footbridge in the foreground and running past cliffs beyond. With pagodas on the hillside in the background. Exact location unidentified, probably a tributary of the Chindwin, and possibly entering it near Chaungwa.