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The letter concerns boundaries: Burney argues that the Salween was never a boundary between Burma, Siam and Zimmay; that river boundaries are a European concept; and that both Burmese and Thais are used to crossing the river for raids.

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6 sheets

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6 pages.

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146 x 102 mm. Showing two long dugouts strapped together to form a raft, and weighed down with passengers and their belongings about to cross the river. The Nampang is an affluent of the Salween River.

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 168-346 (originally there were 165). Added numbers are: 200A, 263A, 270A-D, 280A, 296A, 335A-B; spoiled: 234; not used: 170, 172, 173, 175, 199, 203, 204, 216, 226, 228, 240-242, 253, 255, 257, 258, 262, 300, 314, 325, 326, 334; missing: 333. Numbers 270A-D and 280A are by Hutchins. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 280A follows 337. Subjects covered in this album...

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Landscape format. On leaving the train to cross to the other side of the river on way from Mandalay to Katha. [View looking along riverbank towards group of white buildings].

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210 x 275 mm. Showing a marble statue of the Buddha surrounded by various devotional artefacts. Photographer unknown, probably Watts and Skeen or J Jackson.

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 File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 347-511. Added numbers are: 375A, 529B-C, 266A-B, 521A-B, 547A, 510A; spoiled 350, 424, 464 and 467; not used: 348, 357, 359, 365, 365, 388, 404, 405, 431, 446, 449, 465, 466, 485, 502, 503, 509. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 529B-C, 266A-B follow 484; 456 follows 490; 521A-B follow 496; 547A follows 511. Subjects covered in this album are: Burma: Bhamo; on the...

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Showing a print of a painting. The painting is signed 'F.M.M' (i.e. F.M. Muriel). The postcard is printed by Sir Joseph Causton and Sons Ltd. Annotated 'B5' in bottom right-hand corner.

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79 x 54 mm.

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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350 x 250 mm. '394 may be coloured from this also.'

Scope and Contents 153 x 113 mm. A view looking over the corrugated iron roofs of the military post towards a mist filled valley. Built on the site of the village of Toklaing during the Chin disturbances of 1889, the fort became one of the headquarters for British military activity in the Chin Hills. In its early days its defensive position was not strong:'The fort was in reality no fort at all, but consisted of houses, scattered on the side of a hill and surrounded by an abattis of kaing-brush and...

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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Burmese titles have been given both in transliteration (Duroiselle's system) and in transcription (Okell's system), and also in English translation.

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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157 x 112 mm. Showing Williams, one of the Europeans seen in Y3029C/3, an Indian and two Burmese bearers seated on the platform of Ledaunggan Station, seven miles from Yeu.

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112 x 155 mm. Showing Williams seated with his rifle on a rock beside a dead tiger.

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154 x 112 mm. Printed from a broken negative. Showing Williams and two unidentified Europeans seated on a railway trolley, with shikaris grouped in the background.

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98 x 74 mm. Showing Williams and another unidentified European seated in a garden.

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155 x 108 mm. A view looking up a steep slope towards Williams' verandahed bungalow.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Archives created by the British soldier and diplomat Henry Burney relating to his service in Burma [Myanmar] and Siam [Thailand]. The cataloguing of the collection has occurred in several stages. In 1921, the RCI Librarian Evans Lewin listed the main English language material in four series, assigning each a letter, A to D. In 1958, Dr D.K. Wyatt examined the Siamese material, including some as yet uncatalogued European material. He listed it in three sections, with the letters E, F, and...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Archives created by the British soldier and diplomat Henry Burney relating to his service in Burma [Myanmar] and Siam [Thailand]. The cataloguing of the collection has occurred in several stages. In 1921, the RCI Librarian Evans Lewin listed the main English language material in four series, assigning each a letter, A to D. In 1958, Dr D.K. Wyatt examined the Siamese material, including some as yet uncatalogued European material. He listed it in three sections, with the letters E, F, and...