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119 x 91 mm. Showing a tree shaded ornamental lake in the palace gardens, with a summerhouse in the background.

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177 x 89 mm. View of the palace showing the spire of the Hall of Audience and surrounding buildings. The Palace and City of Mandalay were specially built as the new capital of Upper Burma and King Mindon and his court moved there in 1857.

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91 x 115 mm. View looking along the road leading to the Hall of Audience.

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113 x 90 mm. View looking towards the Palace, with the spire of the Hall of Audience at the right and at the left the Watchtower from which Queen Supyalat is supposed to have watched the advance of the British flotilla towards Mandalay during the Third Burmese War in November 1885.

Scope and Contents 90 x 116 mm. View looking towards the flight of steps leading up to the palace summerhouse. This building was the scene of King Thibaw's surrender to the British in November 1885. With the annexation of Burma many of the palace buildings were used by the British authorities for various purposes: the Hall of Audience, for instance, became the garrison church and palace buildings were used as official residences and offices. It was not until Lord Curzon, as Viceroy, visited Mandalay in...

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European paper manuscript, 200 x 320 mm, 34 sheets. Circa 5,000 entries in two columns.

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Contents include the draft of an article for ‘Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal’ on the marks of the Buddha's foot impressions and excerpts from the Jataka tales translated by Burney (17 sheets).

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Research material collected by Burney between 1830 and 1837, including an article 'On the titles of the kings of Ava' published in the ‘Transactions of the Asiatic Society.’ There are also notes on Shan place names (c 50 sheets).

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1 List of towns and districts of the young princes of Ava. 2 pages.
2 List of houses in the City of Ava, according to 1783 and 1826 Censuses. 2 pages.
3 Information furnished in 1814 respecting the Province of Main Kaing. 8 pages.

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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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A collection of loose prints by Frederic Thesiger Williams (? and others) arranged in four groups.

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A collection of loose prints. The prints are captioned on the reverse with credits to photographers:
1, 3-16 J. Jackson. Note that item two is credited to J. Jackson, but is far more likely to have been taken by Felice Beato.
17-18 Watts and Skeen.

Scope and Contents 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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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, 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, 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.