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
No. 101. Rangoon. A Street; old Style. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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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 ...
No. 102. Rangoon. Signal Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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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 ...
No. 103. Rangoon. The Church. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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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...
No. 104. Rangoon. The Lake. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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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; ...
No. 105. Rangoon. View of the Cantonment. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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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...
No. 106. Rangoon. View near the Lake. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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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'. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); pagodas; public gardens; temples Location = Burma; ...
No. 108. Rangoon. South Entrance of Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards steps and entrance gateway. Letterpress continues: 'The road which leads to this, is, on festival days, crowded with Burmese, men, women, and children, in gay silks and muslins carrying offerings to the Pagoda'. Subjects = architectural el...