Landing goods near the Custom House [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1726 in the negative. View of sailing ships (some with auxiliary steam) moored on the Hugli at Custom House Ghat, with off-loaded barrels in the foreground.
Commissioner's Boat, Cashmere [Srinagar]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Bourne no. 790. View of the Commissioner's boat at the riverside at Srinagar. The long narrow wooden canoe is manned by some thirty rowers, with a central canopied area for passengers. This is the photograph which appears as no. 790 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, entitled, 'Moonshee Bagh,...
King Theebaw's state barge. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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View of the state barge of Thibaw, the former King of Burma, moored on the Irrawaddy, probably at Mandalay. The boat is double-hulled, with two figureheads in the form of heavily gilded figures, while the accommodation is in the form of a payathat or pavilion with a spire of tiered roofs.
Stern of Burmese paddy boat. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Showing the Burmese tillerman seated in the richly decorated (in foliate design) steering chair in the raised stern of an Irrawaddy paddy boat or laung-zat.
Burmese paddy boat. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Paddy boat or laung-zat moored on the Irrawaddy, probably at Rangoon. The boats bipod mast is lowered and the crew are posed with oars as if in the act of rowing the vessel.
[Ceremonial barge, ?Inle Lake.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Covered barge with tiered roofs and figurehead in the form of a bird, possibly used during the Hpaung daw-u Festival on Inle Lake. Print unsigned, but probably by Klier.
[King Thibaw's state barge moored on the Irrawaddy at Mandalay.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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A double-hulled vessel with twin figureheads in the form of nats. The covered area of the boat is built in the form of a tiered roofed pyatthat. Print unsigned, but probably by Klier.
View from the Lake [Naini Tal]. Photographer: Murray, John
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Photograph of the lake in Naini Tal from the Murray Collection: 'Photographic views in Agra and its vicinity', taken by John Murray in 1855. The Kumaon Hills had come under British rule after the Nepal War (1814-16) but the hill station town of Naini Tal was only founded in 1841. It became a san...