Weaving, Upper Burma. Photographer: Watts and Skeen
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Woman seated at a loom outside a house raised on stilts. The loom is in the form of a rectangular wooden frame in which the woman sits. Subjects = Curzon Collection; occupations; weaving
Curzon Collection: 'Assam-Bengal Railway opened by H.E. Baron Curzon of Kedleston, P.C., G.M.S.I., G.M.I.E., at Chittagong, on the 16th February, 1904.' Photographer(s): Unknown
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Red full-leather bound album measuring 320x482mm, with title as above stamped in gold on front cover. Marbled endpapers. Prints are mounted on the recto of each page, with printed captions beneath. The album contains in addition three maps: the first, laid down onto the verso of the front free e...
Barak Bridge near Badarpur Mile 253 [Assam-Bengal Railway]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography Panoramic view composed of two joined prints of the box girder railway bridge over the Barak River two miles north-east of Badarpur. Subjects = Assam-Bengal Railway; bridges; Curzon Collection; railway building; railway companies; railways; transport Location = ...
Genre: Landscape Photography View from the bank of the Jatinga River looking up towards the mouth of the tunnel. The tunnel is situated mid-way between Damchara and Harangajao stations. Subjects = Assam-Bengal Railway; Curzon Collection; railway building; railway companies; railways; river sc...