Myanmar (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1061 Collections and/or Records:
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[Woman at Mergui], 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/252
Scope and Contents
147 x 207 mm.
Dates:
1937
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Women carrying baskets on country road], 1870 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/110
Scope and Contents
'This was a failure but may help you' is written upon reverse.
Dates:
1870 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Wooden church, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029F/4
Scope and Contents
158 x 114 mm. A European with white cassock and pith helmet stands with a group of Burmese children in the foreground. ‘At most of the villages where there is a congregation of native Christians, there is a school and a church’, W.C.B. Purser, ‘Christian Missions in Burma’ (1911), p. 210.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Workers outside thatched building], 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/14
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...
Dates:
1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Worshippers at Pagan, Burma [i.e. Myanmar], 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/128
Scope and Contents
Showing a print of a painting. The painting is signed 'F.M. Muriel'. The postcard is printed by Sir Joseph Causton and Sons Ltd. Annotated 'B6' in bottom right-hand corner.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Wreck of the 'Tammu'], 1894 - 1897
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/47
Scope and Contents
160 x 111 mm. Showing the broken and half-submerged wreck of the sternwheeler 'Tammu'. This boat is not listed in Chubb, H.J. and C.L.D. Duckworth (1973), Irrawaddy Flotilla Company Limited, 1865-1950, Maritime monographs and reports no.7, London : [National Maritime Museum]. The vessel was therefore probably operated by the Burmese Government.
Dates:
1894 - 1897
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Wreck of the 'Tammu'], 1894 - 1897
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/49
Scope and Contents
153 x 107 mm. Close up view of the wrecked sternwheeler 'Tammu'.
Dates:
1894 - 1897
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Wrecked sternwheeler], 1894 - 1897
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/50
Scope and Contents
160 x 114 mm. Showing the broken, half-submerged wreck of an unidentified sternwheeler.
Dates:
1894 - 1897
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Wrecked sternwheeler], 1894 - 1897
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/51
Scope and Contents
148 x 109 mm. Showing the wreck of a sternwheeler.
Dates:
1894 - 1897
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Yokwa rest house, S. Chin Hills, '95, 1895
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/70
Scope and Contents
152 x 112 mm. A view looking down on the rest house, a corrugated iron hut with thatched roof, with valleys and hills beyond. With porters and pack mules on the path in the foreground. The Chin village of Yokwa lies about 30 miles south-east of Haka, and was reached by the Kan-Haka mule track:'Yokwa is the chief village of the tribe and was once strongly fortified, but the stockades are now in ruins. Water is plentiful and there is good camping-ground just below the village on the...
Dates:
1895
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
YWAN KRI: MAN: HMU: MAT KUI PEI: THANN HMA CA, (Yun-gyi Min-hmu-mat-ko), Letter from King of Burma to Government of Yun-gyi (Cochin China) summarising relations between the two states, 1827 - 1838
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/47
Scope and Contents
1 sheet. See also RCMS 65/3/3 Relating to Siam.
Dates:
1827 - 1838
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).