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Place Pinang, Malaysia Material Type Photographs Level [40] File

1. Photo 211/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 211/2
Title:
Arthur Brandreth Collection: Topographical views in India, Burma and the French and Swiss Alps. Photographer(s): Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Collection of loose, unmounted prints depicting views in the Himalayas, Burma and the Swiss Alps, from the collection of Arthur Brandreth (ICS Bengal from 1851). In addition to work by Samuel Bourne, the collection includes photographs by Bourne and Shepherd, Frith's Series and George Perry Abra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1880s
Extent:
21 items

2. Photo 242/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 242/2
Title:
Sir Richard Carnac Temple Collection: Photographs of Burma. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Cloth-bound album measuring 278 x 370mm, with 'Photographs' stamped in gold on front cover, uniform with Photo 242/1, but in a better state of repair. The album contains architectural studies, mainly of Burmese pagoda architecture. Some of the uncredited photographs are probably Philip Klier. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1890s
Extent:
24 items

3. Photo 255/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 255/1
Title:
Leslie Bell Collection: Views in Upper Burma. Photographer(s): Bell, Leslie
Scope & Content:
Photographs, mainly snapshots, taken by Miss Leslie Bell during a visit to Upper Burma in 1929-30. Subjects covered include: Kachin domestic life; an Anglo-Chinese Frontier meeting at Naungma; Irrawaddy flotilla steamer and passengers; bamboo bridge; modes of transport; Chinese workers making da...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1929-1930
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 355/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1
Title:
Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of locations in India, the Persian Gulf, Burma, Florence, China (Yarkand in the latter-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), Zanzibar, the Andaman Islands, Balochistan, Scotland as well as group and individual portrait...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s-1880s
Extent:
232 b&w photographic prints, other printed material and 4 watercolour drawings, bound into a green and brown half leather album

5. Photo 430/14

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/14
Title:
Curzon Collection: Album 'Presented by the Reception Committee to Lord and Lady Curzon as a souvenir of Their Excellencies' visit to Rangoon, December 1901'. Photographer(s): Watts and Skeen
Scope & Content:
Black full-leather album, 356x475mm, containing mounted prints. The prints either have letterpress captions or captions in the negative. The front cover has the Curzon coat of arms in brass with the motto: 'Let Curzon holde what Curzon helde'. The corners of the front cover also have brass flora...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
93 items

6. Photo 644(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 644(22)
Title:
Entrance, Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the entrance gateway, flanked by two massive chinthes. Print unsigned, but probably by Felice Beato. Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); chinthes (Burmese temple guardian figures); pago...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 644(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 644(23)
Title:
Musicians, platform [of] Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Print unsigned, but probably by Felice Beato. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); musicians; pagodas; temples Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 644(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 644(24)
Title:
Carved temple, Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of one of the shrines on the platform of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, showing intricate wood-carving decoration. Print unsigned, but probably by Felice Beato. Subjects = arts & crafts; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); pagodas; temples;...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 644(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 644(25)
Title:
Platform, Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); pagodas; temples Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 644(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 644(26)
Title:
[Buddha] Images, Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Group of painted Buddha images in various attitudes in a shrine in the temple. Print unsigned, but probably by Felice Beato. Subjects = Buddha images; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); pagodas; temples Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon;...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item