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Container Reference (shelfmark) Mss Eur E254/45

41. Mss Eur E254/45(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E254/45(29)
Title:
[Studio portrait of two Burmese women.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length studio portrait of two women, seated on a carpet in front of a backdrop of a painted rustic scene. The faces of both women are heavily made up in white. The notes accompanying the photographs identify these women as wives of the Sawbwa of Yaunghwe, but th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

42. Mss Eur E254/45(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E254/45(30)
Title:
[Speech being delivered in front of the Civic Hall, Rangoon.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View looking towards figures on the steps of the building, with guard of honour in foreground. The figure giving the speech, seen somewhat distantly, has not been identified with certainty, although the notes accompanying the photographs name him, surely incorrectly, as...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910
Extent:
1 item

43. Mss Eur E254/45(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E254/45(31)
Title:
[Four snapshots.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Four snapshots, showing (a) Three Burmese women holding their babies, (b) garden with servants, (c) unidentified child, (d) unidentified woman. Subjects = Thirkell White Collection
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

44. Mss Eur E254/45(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E254/45(32)
Title:
Capt Thomson [with] Sagaing Police [Football] Team. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Police Football Team, with Captain Alexander James Douglas Thomson seated centre. [207x153mm]. Subjects = Burmese Police; football; sports; Thirkell White Collection Location = Burma; Myanmar; Sagaing; Sagaing Division
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1915
Extent:
1 item

45. Mss Eur E254/45(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E254/45(33)
Title:
[Camp scenes, Burma.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Four small prints showing a camp on a hill top in the Burmese countryside. The notes accompanying the photographs identify this as the camp of Sir Herbert Thirkell White. The figures seen standing at the entrance to a makeshift hut in print (d) may be Sir Herbert and Lady Thirkell White. Subje...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

46. Mss Eur E254/45(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E254/45(34)
Title:
[Camp scenes, Burma.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Two small prints, similar subject to prints 33 (a-d). Subjects = camps; Thirkell White Collection
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

47. Mss Eur E254/45(34c)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E254/45(34c)
Title:
[View across the Royal Lake, Rangoon.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the lake towards the Shwe Dagon Pagoda on the skyline. [136x81mm]. Subjects = Thirkell White Collection Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

48. Mss Eur E254/45(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E254/45(35)
Title:
[Wedding group of Maxwell Laurie, Government House, Rangoon.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Wedding group posed on the terrace of Government House, Rangoon. The main participants, Maxwell Laurie and his bride, and the occasion, are identified in a note by the Laurie's daughter. Sir Herbert Thirkell White stands with Maxwell Laurie in the back row. Mrs Lauir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

49. Mss Eur E254/45(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E254/45(36)
Title:
[Group in pierrot costumes on terrace of Government House, Rangoon.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Pierrot costume group with Lady Thirkell White in centre, on terrace of Government House. Similar to print 23. Print unsigned, but probably by Klier. [Gelatin printing-out paper, 270x206mm]. Subjects = European social life; fancy dress; government houses; Thirkell...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905-1910
Extent:
1 item

50. Mss Eur E254/45(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E254/45(37)
Title:
[Costume group, probably at Rangoon.] Photographer: Watts and Skeen
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Costume group, in the form a a tableau of a German bierkeller, the men seated at tables, attended by serving girls. [?Collodion printing-out paper, signed 'Watts & Skeen' in the negative, 265x184mm]. Subjects = European social life; fancy dress; Thirkell White...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item