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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1183(24)
Title:: [The Buddhist stupa at Borobudur.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Numbered '10' in pencil on mount. Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of a section of the stupa, with sculptured Buddha images on the platform in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Late 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(9)
Title:: In the Temple of Five Hundred Genii (founded A. D. 500) among its 500 disciples of Buddha [Hualin Temple], Canton. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(27)
Title:: Colossal statue of Buddha in Fuchoo Temple, at Ningpo, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:: Interior of temple, with Buddha image.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/3(44)
Title:: Interior of Joss House [Canton]. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:: Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th February, 1879. With contemporary descriptive letterpress label: 'No. 50-Mars, Boreas, &c. The truculent fellow on the one side is the God of war; on the other we have the God of wind. These figures must not be taken as r...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/3(45)
Title:: [Chinese] Priests. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:: Full-length studio portrait of a group of priests, with a table in the centre on which stand religious articles and a miniature statue of Buddha. With contemporary descriptive printed label: 'No. 42-Priests. And here are the priests. Dirty, ignorant, lazy rascals, without exception; but in China...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/5(27)
Title:: Daibutz [Buddha image at Kamakura]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Inscribed and numbered Daibutz 351 in the negative. View looking towards the massive Buddha image at Kamakura.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(40)
Title:: Three-headed elephant guarding sanctuary, Arakan Pagoda, Mandalay, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, showing three young Burmese boys posed around the sculpture. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(41)
Title:: Pilgrims feeding holy turtles, Arakan Pagoda, Mandalay, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, with figures on the bank of the tank in the foreground and the spire of the Arakan Pagoda rising beyond. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(44)
Title:: Immense marble image of Buddha in a pagoda, Mandalay, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, Buddha image with figures kneeling in front. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1908
Extent:: 1 item

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