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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(113)
Title:: No. 113. Rangoon. Great Bell of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography The bell, in an open-sided pavilion, stands beneath a large tree. Subjects = religion; religion (Buddhism); religious articles; religious articles (Buddhist); temple bells Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(114)
Title:: No. 114. Rangoon. The Votive Tree. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Offerings hanging from the tree, probably in the precincts of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Letterpress continues: 'Offering of muslin are suspended from this in honor of Gautama; some even have prayers written on them in the idea that every breeze would waft their petitio...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(115)
Title:: No. 115. Rangoon. Rear View of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Pagoda (covered in scaffolding), with smaller pagodas in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'Taken from the N.W. corner of the platform. The scaffolding of bamboo, so much like basketwork, was put up by the Burmese to enable them to regil...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(116)
Title:: No. 116. Rangoon. Small Pagoda [on platform of Shwe Dagon]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Generally view of one of the ancillary pagodas of the Shwe Dagon. Letterpress continues: 'On the platform of the Shwe Dagon. There were numbers around the great Pagoda similar to this, which have been destroyed'. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese archit...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(117)
Title:: No. 117. Rangoon. Portico of the West Entrance of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of covered entrance. Letterpress continues: 'This is the landing of the west stairs opposite to the Tazoung on that side'. Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); gateways; pagodas; temples Locat...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(118)
Title:: No. 118. Rangoon. Natural Bridge. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Letterpress continues: 'A fallen tree over Tiger Alley near the American Mission at Kemindine'. Tiger Alley was one of the roads leading out of Rangoon to the north. Subjects = bridges Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(119)
Title:: No. 119. Rangoon. Mission House at Kemindine. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a two-storey verandahed house, with a hipped roof of thatch. Letterpress continues: 'The style of dwelling adopted by Europeans in Burmah'. Subjects = British colonial architecture; bungalows; mission houses; missionaries; private houses Loca...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 61/1(120)
Title:: No. 120. Rangoon. Tiger Alley. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Pathway through forest. Letterpress continues: 'A beautiful ravine near Kemindine'. The Kemendine district is in the west part of Rangoon. Subjects = Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 88/1(1)
Title:: The Strand [Hotel], Rangoon. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the street of the main facade of the hotel on Strand Road, built for the Sarkies Brothers (founders of Raffles Hotel in Singapore) and opened in 1901.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Early 1900s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 88/1(2)
Title:: Royal Lakes, Rangoon. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View in Dalhousie Park looking across the Royal Lake towards a wooden bridge, with two Buddhist monks in the foreground. The buildings on the skyline are probably the European Infantry Barracks.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890s
Extent:: 1 item

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