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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(93)
Title:: No. 93. Amerapoora. Entrance of a Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking up steps leading to balcony, with the tiered roof of the monastery beyond. Letterpress continues: 'In the same enclosure as Kyoung No. 86 [Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung]. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); kyaungs (Bu...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(94)
Title:: No. 94. Amerapoora. Pyathat of Kyoung No. 93 [Maha Too Lo Bounghian Kyaung]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of pavilion with slender tiered roof. Letterpress continues: 'This is a fine specimen of this kind of building, it is of wood, carved and gilt'. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); kyaungs (Burmese monasteries); monasteries; ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(95)
Title:: No. 95. Amerapoora. Balcony of a small Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of wood-carved balcony. Letterpress continues: 'This is another example of the fertility of design amongst the Burmese. It is of ungilt wood'. Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); kyaungs (Bu...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(96)
Title:: No. 96. Mengoon. Ruined Griffins. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Rear view of the massive headless chinthes in front of the Mingun Pagoda, with the Irrawaddy River beyond. Letterpress continues: 'In front of the Pagoda. These were 95 feet high; but, like the latter, were shattered by the earthquake of 1839. The heads and neck...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(97)
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
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(98)
Title:: No. 98. Mengoon. Pagoda from S.E. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography With nearest corner collapsed. Colesworthy Grant's watercolour sketch of the same subject (WD 540, print 62) is taken from an almost identical viewpoint. Letterpress continues: 'This corner shows the effects of the earthquake most completely. On reaching the to...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(99)
Title:: No. 99. Mengoon. Small bell in front of Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = religion; religion (Buddhism); religious articles; religious articles (Buddhist); temple bells Location = Burma; Mingun; Myanmar; Sagaing Division
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(100)
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'. Subjects = docks and dockyards; shipbuilding; transport; water transport Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(101)
Title:: No. 101. Rangoon. A Street; old Style. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape 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 give an idea ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(102)
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

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