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Half-plate (landscape format). (Commanding Officer, Captain D. Forster R.E.) [Showing company of soldiers in front of Palace].

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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[Showing covered canoe moored at riverside].

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[View of river and bank, with boats].

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155 x 107 mm.

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Quarter-plate. Showing use of the pointed arch.

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Half-plate. In red and gold relief in the numerous niches about the walls and corridors. Seen through right hand passage shown in the previous picture.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints. This appears to have been an official record of the Royal Tour. Each page has a heading for the place and date and most photographs are captioned, probably by a professional calligrapher. The Prince of Wales Feathers are on the cover and 'The Royal Tour of India 1905-1906' on the spine. Locations and periods covered are: Bombay, 9 November- 14 November, 1905; Udaipur, 18 November - 29 November, 1905; Jaipur, 21 November-23 November, 1905; Lahore, 28 November-1...

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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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate. Ananda temple in distance on right.

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90 x 114 mm. Showing a canal in the palace garden.

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91 x 114 mm. Showing a canal in the palace garden.

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93 x 111 mm. Showing a wooden bridge spanning a canal in the palace garden.

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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...

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: 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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Quarter-plate.

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...