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471. Photo 1000/34(3560)

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Photo 1000/34(3560)
Title:
No. 111. Rangoon. Side view of East Tazoung [Shwe Dagon Pagoda]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the tazoung or devotional chapel, a square open-sided wooden pavilion with tiered roof. With lion statues in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'The base of the Pagoda is ornamented by brickwork lions, having altars for offerings before ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

472. Photo 1000/34(3561)

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Photo 1000/34(3561)
Title:
No. 112. Rangoon. Henzas on the East side of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of henza posts set among small pagodas in the Shwe Dagon. Letterpress continues: 'These, painted in bright colours diapered with gold and silver (traces of which still remain) must have had a very gay appearance. Henza staves are attached to all pag...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

473. Photo 1000/34(3562)

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Photo 1000/34(3562)
Title:
No. 113. Rangoon. Great Bell of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The bell, in an open-sided pavilion, stands beneath a large tree. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (113).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

474. Photo 1000/34(3563)

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Photo 1000/34(3563)
Title:
No. 114. Rangoon. The Votive Tree. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Offerings hanging from the tree, probably in the precincts of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Letterpress continues: 'Offering of muslin are suspended from this in honor of Gautama; some even have prayers written on them in the idea that every breeze would waft their petitio...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

475. Photo 1000/34(3564)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3564)
Title:
No. 115. Rangoon. Rear View of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Pagoda (covered in scaffolding), with smaller pagodas in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'Taken from the N.W. corner of the platform. The scaffolding of bamboo, so much like basketwork, was put up by the Burmese to enable them to regil...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

476. Photo 1000/34(3565)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3565)
Title:
No. 116. Rangoon. Small Pagoda [on platform of Shwe Dagon]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Generally view of one of the ancillary pagodas of the Shwe Dagon. Letterpress continues: 'On the platform of the Shwe Dagon. There were numbers around the great Pagoda similar to this, which have been destroyed'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

477. Photo 1000/34(3566)

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Photo 1000/34(3566)
Title:
No. 117. Rangoon. Portico of the West Entrance of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of covered entrance. Letterpress continues: 'This is the landing of the west stairs opposite to the Tazoung on that side'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (117).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

478. Photo 1000/34(3567)

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Photo 1000/34(3567)
Title:
No. 118. Rangoon. Natural Bridge. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Letterpress continues: 'A fallen tree over Tiger Alley near the American Mission at Kemindine'. Tiger Alley was one of the roads leading out of Rangoon to the north. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

479. Photo 1000/34(3568)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3568)
Title:
No. 119. Rangoon. Mission House at Kemindine. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a two-storey verandahed house, with a hipped roof of thatch. Letterpress continues: 'The style of dwelling adopted by Europeans in Burmah'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (119).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

480. Photo 1000/34(3569)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3569)
Title:
No. 120. Rangoon. Tiger Alley. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Print in very poor condition, faded and yellowed. Pathway through forest. Letterpress continues: 'A beautiful ravine near Kemindine'. The Kemendine district is in the west part of Rangoon. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) on mount and signed on the print 'L. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item