Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the Royal Lake in Dalhousie Park towards a boathouse. Subjects = public gardens Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Genre: Landscape Photography View loooking across the lake towards the wooden footbridge in the Cantonment Gardens, with the spire of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda in the skyline. Subjects = public gardens Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Paddy boat & sampan etc. (Rangoon). Photographer: Unknown
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Starboard beam view of a paddy boat (laung-zat) being rowed, probably on the Irrawaddy rather than the Rangoon River. With a sampan and two small canoes near the bank in the foreground. An Irrawaddy Flotilla Company flat is moored in mid-stream. Subjects = laung-zats (Burmese rice boats); loca...
Elephants working in timber yard (Rangoon). Photographer: Unknown
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General view of group of elephants shifting timber, with baulks of teak piled in foreground and ope-sided sheds in the background. Subjects = animals; elephants; teak; timber industry; timber yards Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Elephant shifting a large baulk of teak onto a pile in a Rangoon timber yard. A mahout sits on the elephant, while a second figure on the ground directs the animal with a spear-like length of wood. Subjects = animals; elephants; mahouts; teak; timber industry; timber yards Location = Burma; ...
Bungalow or dwelling house Rangoon. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the driveway of a substantial two-storey wood-built bungalow, with verandahs running round the house on both floors. With a group of servants posed in the garden and a European couple seated in a carriage in front of the entrance. Subjects = ...