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Project / Collection India Office Records Subject Architecture Level [41] Item

1. IOR/L/MIL/5/731(66)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/731(66)
Title:
A Taungya clearing on the road between Shamao and Nangu. The long gallery running out from the end of the house enables cultivators to see well down the hillside. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along hillside towards a thatched house, with positions of Lower Nangu, Upper Nangu and ration base and signalling station marked on print. The taungya system, introduced in Burma in the 1860s, consisted of the planting of cash crops between newly-plant...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1910-1911
Extent:
1 item

2. IOR/L/MIL/5/731(67)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/731(67)
Title:
A Yawyin taungya clearing. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View of cleared land with thatched house beyond. See note at print 66.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1910-1911
Extent:
1 item

3. IOR/L/MIL/5/731(71)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/731(71)
Title:
Chinese traders' coffin wood depot at Kangfang, Upper Ngawchang. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group posed with timber in front of depot.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1910-1911
Extent:
1 item

4. IOR/L/MIL/5/731(83)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/731(83)
Title:
Brushwood shelter at Seniku. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking along the open-sided shelters, possibly military police lines.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1910-1911
Extent:
1 item

5. IOR/L/PS/7/232(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/7/232(2)
Title:
The Tomb of the Late Ilkhani of Bujnurd. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across stream towards the the tomb, partly obscured by trees: 'In the afternoon, we rode back towards Firuza to visit the tomb of the late Ilkhani. The shrine, as it now is, consists of a central blue dome and two side arches, with four minarets. Th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1908-Dec 1908
Extent:
1 item

6. IOR/L/PS/7/232(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/7/232(7)
Title:
The Gunbad-i-Kabus from the south-west [Gonbad-e Kavus]. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography View looking towards the obelisk and surrounding (modern) buildings at the Russian post. The post was set up by the agreement of the Persian and Russian governments in order to stop trans-frontier raiding. 'Before quitting Gunbad-i-Kabus, which is now the capit...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1908-Dec 1908
Extent:
1 item

7. IOR/L/PS/7/232(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/7/232(8)
Title:
A village in the Astrabad District [Gorgan District]. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a group of thatched huts, with a group of women seated on the ground in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1908-Dec 1908
Extent:
1 item

8. IOR/L/PS/7/232(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/7/232(13)
Title:
Bostam — The Shaking Minaret. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the tower, with a group of curious onlookers in the right foreground: 'The famous shaking minaret was next visited and two men shook it with the result that a brick set on edge fell down. It is about forty feet high, composed of brickwork an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1908-Dec 1908
Extent:
1 item

9. IOR/L/PS/7/232(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/7/232(14)
Title:
Shrine of Muhamead [sic] Mahruk. Tomb of Omar Khayyam showing in left wing [at Nishapur or Neyshabur]. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view, but with top of dome of main tomb out of picture. 'Less than half a mile to the east [of the tomb of Farid-ud-din], in the heart of old Nishapur, the walls of which now resemble banks of earth, is a garden shrine. Under the dome, in the place of ho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1908-Dec 1908
Extent:
1 item

10. IOR/L/PS/7/232(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/7/232(15)
Title:
Kadamagh from the east. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across fields towards domed shrine (somewhat distant): '...Upon leaving Nishapur, we rode to Kadamgah, where a shrine was built by Shah Abbas to cover the footprint of the Imam Riza. This shrine is surrounded by fine pines of a different species to ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1908-Dec 1908
Extent:
1 item