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461. Photo 1000/34(3550)

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Photo 1000/34(3550)
Title:
No. 101. Rangoon. A Street; old Style. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a side street lined with single-storied houses roofed with mats, towards the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, visible on the skyline. The roadway is unsurfaced and overgrown, with a central walkway of rough planks. Letterpress continues: 'This may giv...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

462. Photo 1000/34(3551)

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Photo 1000/34(3551)
Title:
No. 102. Rangoon. Signal Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the temple, with chinthes facing the roadway at the entrance. The circular object hanging from a yard at the top of the pagoda is presumably a time ball. Letterpress continues: 'From this a very extended view of the town and river can be had. It ...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
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1 item

463. Photo 1000/34(3552)

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Photo 1000/34(3552)
Title:
No. 103. Rangoon. The Church. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the English Church, a thatched wooden building on piles. Letterpress continues: 'An old kyoung converted for the purpose'. Situated in the cantonment area on the east side of Voyle Road, the former kyaung was used as an Anglican Church for a time...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
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1 item

464. Photo 1000/34(3553)

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Photo 1000/34(3553)
Title:
No. 104. Rangoon. The Lake. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking over the Royal Lake in what was to become Dalhousie Park. Probably taken from the Signal Pagoda, with buildings of the infantry barracks in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'To the east of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, a park is to be formed around it; ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

465. Photo 1000/34(3554)

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Photo 1000/34(3554)
Title:
No. 105. Rangoon. View of the Cantonment. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Panoramic view composed of two joined prints, looking south-east from the Shwe Dagon Pagoda over the cantonment area towards the Signal Pagoda in the distance. Letterpress continues: 'From the upper platform of the great Pagoda, looking S. and S.E. Pussendown [Pazun...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

466. Photo 1000/34(3555)

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Photo 1000/34(3555)
Title:
No. 106. Rangoon. View near the Lake. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the future Dalhousie Park towards the Shwe Dagon Pagoda on the skyline. Letterpress continues: 'Shwe Dagon in the distance'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (106).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

467. Photo 1000/34(3556)

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Photo 1000/34(3556)
Title:
No. 107. Rangoon. Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of Pagoda and platform. Note scaffolding around dome (see print 115). Letterpress continues: 'From H.M. 84th Barracks'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (107).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

468. Photo 1000/34(3557)

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Photo 1000/34(3557)
Title:
No. 108. Rangoon. South Entrance of Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards steps and entrance gateway. Letterpress continues: 'The road which leads to this, is, on festival days, crowded with Burmese, men, women, and children, in gay silks and muslins carrying offerings to the Pagoda'. With India Museum wetstamp (u...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

469. Photo 1000/34(3558)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3558)
Title:
No. 109. Rangoon. North Entrance to the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the temple, with a fence of posts in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'This was stockaded when the Pagoda was held by us against the Burmese'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Pho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

470. Photo 1000/34(3559)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3559)
Title:
No. 110. Rangoon. South Tazoung of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the wooden building with tiered roof, with part of the scaffolded dome of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda visible in the background. This is a poor quality photograph which appears to have suffered from camera movement during exposure. Letterpress continue...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item