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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Cars Level [40] File

1. Add Or 5368

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5368
Title:
Burmese funeral car for a monk.
Scope & Content:
Funeral car for a Burmese monk (‘phongi’). Inscribed ‘Enclosure and catafalque in which a Phungi is placed to be burnt. Hearse in car in which a Phungi is carried to the burning place.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 5368v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5368v
Title:
Burmese funeral cars for lay persons.
Scope & Content:
Two round funeral cars for Burmese lay people. Inscribed: ‘Lay catafalque and coffin.’ Note: The receptacle for the monk’s body is the quadrangular black segment in the middle of the funeral car. Such ornate funeral cars denoted a person of high status, and the related ceremonies would have b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 Item

3. Photo 236(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 236(1)
Title:
[Motor cars crossing a snow-covered pass.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Showing two cars being hauled by porters towards the summit of a snow-covered pass. The registration of the leading vehicle is 942 WI.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1146(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1146(32)
Title:
On the Road to Phari. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view, taken on the road to Phari.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1146(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1146(33)
Title:
On the Road to Phari. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view, on the road to Phari.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1148(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1148(48)
Title:
Wayfarers resting under the pines at Suzukawa — west along old post-road from Tokyo to Kyoto, Japan. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1228(56)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(56)
Title:
Goruckpore [Gorakhpur], May 1870. Start for the jungle. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Showing Indian servants loading baggage onto the howdah of a kneeling elephant.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1870
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1258(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(20)
Title:
Crash scene near the Maidan [Calcutta]. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:
Showing the aftermath of the collision between two cars.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1946-1953
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1258(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(32)
Title:
Monsoon floods—Calcutta 1950. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:
Showing cars, a rickshaw and pedestrians negotiating a flooded street in Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1950
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1281(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1281(1)
Title:
[Main entrance to 8 Middleton Street, Calcutta.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View from the street looking towards the main gateway of 8 Middleton Street, with a car emerging and a servant standing in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930s
Extent:
1 item