Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). And female elephants ounging.

Scope and Contents 192 x 257 mm. Showing two girls standing with arms around each other. In a reproduction of this photograph (Scott 1900), the girls are identified as 'Chinboks', who lived in the hills from the Maw River down to the Saw chaung (watercourse) in the southern Chin Hills. The costume worn by these girls is well-described: 'The dress of the women is a sort of tabard, or sleeveless jersey with a V-shaped throat. Below this is a small loincloth, which shows about six inches below the jacket. ...

Scope and Contents

152 x 104 mm.

Scope and Contents

1 Copies of inscriptions at Tagaung with interpretation

2 Copies of two Christian tombstones at Ava

Scope and Contents

The letters, dated 2 July 1832 (?) and 1 Feb 1833, discuss trade conditions and ask Burney to improve on Crawfurd's trade treaty.

Scope and Contents

153 x 112 mm.

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...

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...

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...

Scope and Contents Shan silk paper manuscript, 220 x 500 mm, 26 lines to a folio, 22 sheets. Khamti Shan script. The sheets are sewn at the top into an orange flowered cloth and tied round with a thin red cord. The first folio has description in Khamti Shan, and in Burmese, 'Written by two pupils of the Shwei-kyaung gaing supporting Hsaya'. According to the Burmese colophon on f. 19-20, two novices named Nandamala and Maung Yin Muneinda copied the manuscript in B.E. 1199 (1837 A.D.) and gave it to the A-yei...

Scope and Contents

Shan silk paper manuscript, 230 x 500 mm, 26 lines to a folio, 5 sheets. Khamti Shan script. The sheets are sewn at the top into an orange flowered cloth and tied round with a thin red cord. This is a continuation of RCMS 65/8/93.

Scope and Contents

163 x 113 mm. View from the river of a village on the bank.

Scope and Contents

161 x 111 mm. View of river and cliffs at Kalewa.

Scope and Contents

101 x 72 mm. A view looking down (possibly from Williams' house at Kalewa) onto a number of small huts constructed from woven, patterned palms.

Scope and Contents

99 x 75 mm. View looking along a path on the hillside above the river, with bungalows on either side and a Burmese horseman in the foreground.

Scope and Contents

99 x 64 mm (oval print). View looking along a path on the hillside above the river, with a Burmese horseman in the foreground. Taken from a bungalow verandah.

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

98 x 72 mm. As captioned.

Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Pozoondoung.

Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). Looking towards the river from the Thatbyinnya Pagoda. [View looking towards Irrawaddy, with brick shrines and temples on plain in foreground].

Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). Looking towards the river from the Thatbyinnya Pagoda. [View looking towards Irrawaddy, with brick shrines and temples on plain in foreground].

Scope and Contents

365 x 265 mm watercolour.