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Quarter-plate. [Showing boats moored at riverside].

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Half-plate (landscape format).

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 a verandahed bungalow, with a garden in front on the slope running down to the river. The figure standing on the verandah is presumably Mills, about whom no biographical information is to hand.

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99 x 75 mm. As captioned.

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100 x 76 mm. View looking over roof tops towards the river, covered in a thin belt of low lying mist.

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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99 x 72 mm. As captioned.

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97 x 72 mm. A smaller type of steamer, typical of the models designed for use on the Chindwin.

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101 x 73 mm. Showing food being unpacked from hampers, with table and chairs in the foreground.

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100 x 74 mm. A very blurred photograph showing food being unpacked from hampers.

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98 x 74 mm. Showing food being unpacked from hampers.

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99 x 72 mm. View of the landing stage area, with goats in the foreground and labourers shifting sacks of produce beyond.

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98 x 76 mm. Showing a long raft on board of which are a number of huts containing the paddy.

Scope and Contents 157 x 111 mm. Showing a long raft on board which are a number of huts containing the paddy:'The climate is conducive to paddy cultivation, especially in the valley of the Muittha River which joins the Chindwin at Kalewa, and the traditional movement of the paddy for milling at Monywa is as fine an example of transportation economics as one could find. Rafts are built of the plentiful bamboo of the area, ten to twelve huts of dani leaves, better known as atap are erected on the rafts...

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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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159 x 111 mm. A view looking along the riverbank (with covered canoes in the foreground) towards European houses and, on a hill, the spires of temples.

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99 x 76 mm. A river bank scene with a Burmese man in the foreground constructing a covered raft.

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99 x 73 mm. View looking across the river, with Burmese house boats moored in the foreground.

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100 x 75 mm. View looking across the river, with Burmese house boats moored in the foreground

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100 x 71 mm. Showing house boats (of less ornate design than those seen in Y3029C/78-80) moored by the side of the river.

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99 x 72 mm. Showing a Burmese man on the river bank. He is standing among what appears to be the ruins of a hut.

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Early morning. [View looking along Irrawaddy, with town and hills in distance].

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...