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3901. Photo 1000/34(3546)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3546)
Title:
No. 97. Mengoon. Pagoda from N.W. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the massive, cracked and ruinous pagoda (allegedly the largest mass of brickwork in the world). The Irrawaddy can be seen in the background. Letterpress continues: 'Begun but never completed by King Mendaraggee about the end of last century. It i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

3902. Photo 1000/34(3547)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3547)
Title:
No. 98. Mengoon. Pagoda from S.E. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography With nearest corner collapsed. Letterpress continues: 'This corner shows the effects of the earthquake most completely. On reaching the top by it, the surface is seen rent into broad and deep fissures - a glacier in brickwork'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnum...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

3903. Photo 1000/34(3548)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3548)
Title:
No. 99. Mengoon. Small bell in front of Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The bell hangs from a wooden post supported between two stone pillars with onion-domed capitals. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (99).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

3904. Photo 1000/34(3549)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3549)
Title:
No. 100. Rangoon. Patent slip. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Showing a small open boat on the patent slip on the Rangoon River. Letterpress continues: 'In the government dockyard'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (100).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

3905. Photo 1000/34(3550)

Reference (shelfmark):
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

3906. Photo 1000/34(3551)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3551)
Title:
No. 102. Rangoon. Signal Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

3907. Photo 1000/34(3552)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3552)
Title:
No. 103. Rangoon. The Church. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

3908. Photo 1000/34(3553)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3553)
Title:
No. 104. Rangoon. The Lake. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
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
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

3909. Photo 1000/34(3554)

Reference (shelfmark):
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
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

3910. Photo 1000/34(3555)

Reference (shelfmark):
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
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

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