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431. Photo 1000/34(3520)

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Photo 1000/34(3520)
Title:
No. 71. Amerapoora. A street leading to the Palace. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street with lined with single-storied thatched houses towards the pyathat of the palace in the distance. Letterpress continues: 'The Ooh-nein gate leads into this street. The Palace is the centre of the city, and the streets leading fr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

432. Photo 1000/34(3521)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3521)
Title:
No. 72. Amerapoora. The Yoom-dau. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography An open-sided wooden building with tiered roof, standing on piles. Letterpress continues: 'This is the Hall of Justice on the left of the east side of the Palace'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

433. Photo 1000/34(3522)

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Photo 1000/34(3522)
Title:
No. 73. Amerapoora. Palace of the White Elephant. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A square, open-sided wooden hall with tiered roof. A number of cannons lie in the courtyard in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'The white elephant is the same Crawfurd saw in 1826; it is now fifty years old: it has its guards, four white and eight gold um...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

434. Photo 1000/34(3523)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3523)
Title:
No. 74. Amerapoora. Gautama's Shrine. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Shrine with figures of the Buddha receving homage from a white elephant and a nat. Letterpress continues: 'This is at the Sontoung-pyee-tiyne Pagoda. The white elephant and a Nat are making offerings to Gautama. The Nats, in Burman belief, are an order of being ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

435. Photo 1000/34(3524)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3524)
Title:
No. 75. Amerapoora. A street in the city. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Letterpress continues: 'The pagoda on the right is the Shwe-yeen-yay; that in the distance the Sindu Shwe koo'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (75).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

436. Photo 1000/34(3525)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3525)
Title:
No. 76. Amerapoora. Sindu Shwe koo Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the temple, with chinthe or leogriph guarding entrance at right. Letterpress continues: 'One of the most graceful buildings about the city. It is of white stucco, the scroll-work being gilt; the canopy on the summit is of wood, gilt and inlaid wi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

437. Photo 1000/34(3526)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3526)
Title:
No. 77. Amerapoora. The Kings' Water Palace. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Wooden building raised on thick piles, with a slender central pyathat or tiered spire. Letterpress continues: 'On the banks of the Irrawadi, used chiefly on the occasion of a boat-race'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

438. Photo 1000/34(3527)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3527)
Title:
No. 78. Amerapoora. Entrance of the Aracan Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along roadway lined with traders' stalls towards the entrance to the wooden temple. With a stone chinthe to the left of the building. Letterpress continues: 'One of the most frequented of the Amerapoora temples. The approach is a perfect bazaar. Ins...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

439. Photo 1000/34(3528)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3528)
Title:
No. 79. Amerapoora. Aracan Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view showing outer wall, somewhat dilapidated gateway, and temple beyond. Letterpress continues: 'About two miles from Amerapoora, here was placed the famous bronze image of Gautama 12 feet high brought from Aracan in 1784'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

440. Photo 1000/34(3529)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3529)
Title:
No. 80. Amerapoora. Kyoung near the Aracan Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the central portion of the monastery, with stone staircase leading to the first floor platform in foreground. Letterpress continues: 'This is the longest kyoung in this neighbourhood, its platform is about 400 feet long. It is gilded'. With India Museum ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item