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155 x 112 mm. Showing Williams and two unidentified Europeans posed with porters and bearers around two dead tigers.

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153 x 110 mm. Showing a paddle steamer approaching the landing stage at Kalewa. The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company made an expedition up the Chindwin in 1881 to assess the feasibility of extending its operations along this river. The result of this was the construction of the Kahbyoo which opened the first service between Pakokku and Kindat in 1882. The service was temporarily withdrawn during the troubles in Upper Burma of 1884 and 1885 but was subsequently resumed.

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153 x 109 mm. Showing an unidentified sternwheeler under steam on the Chindwin at Kalewa.

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153 x 114 mm. View from a hillside looking down onto a spit of land with a street of Burmese houses. A paddlesteamer is moored at the far end of the point.

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128 x 77 mm (oval print). A view looking across the river towards the buildings of Kalewa.

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111 x 158 mm. Showing an Indian bearer carrying a pole from which hang the carcases of two large birds.

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100 x 73 mm. As captioned.

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Quarter-plate.

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[Showing children and adults in village setting].

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99 x 74 mm. Showing a group of Burmese men (probably house servants) gathered in front of the verandah of a bungalow, probably at Kalewa.

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100 x 71 mm. Showing a Burmese man seated in front of a crude, tent-shaped thatched hut.

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Quarter-plate. [Showing pupils at work in a classroom open to the street].

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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133 x 75 mm (oval print). A view looking across the river towards the military headquarters on the further shore, with a sternwheeler moored at the landing stage.

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156 x 111 mm. A view looking down onto the river bank where the commissariat are gathered with their keepers in a semi-circle at the water's edge.

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100 x 74 mm. A slightly blurred view showing a Burmese youth cooking on the river bank, with house boats moored beyond.

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157 x 113 mm.

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160 x 113 mm.

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155 x 111 mm.

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152 x 110 mm.

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155 x 112 mm.

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156 x 112 mm.

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156 x 112 mm.

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157 x 111 mm.

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157 x 115 mm.