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1. Photo 15/6(59)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/6(59)
Title:
Entrance to Shwé Dagon Pagoda [Rangoon]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); Elgin Collection; gateways; temples Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 61/1(107)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(107)
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'. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); pagodas; temples Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 61/1(108)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(108)
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'. Subjects = architectural el...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 61/1(109)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(109)
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'. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); pagodas; temples Locat...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 61/1(110)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(110)
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
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 61/1(111)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(111)
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
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 61/1(112)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(112)
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
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 61/1(115)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(115)
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

9. Photo 61/1(116)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(116)
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'. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese archit...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 61/1(117)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(117)
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'. Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); gateways; pagodas; temples Locat...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item