Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of British officers, dressed informally and with some holding tennis racquets. A line of Burmese seated at the front of the group. Two of the Burmese figures also appear in print 65, they are identified as Sagaing officials. Subjects = dress (Europea...
Hi Tigaing [?Tigyaing]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the river towards the village on the further bank, with houses and pagodas on the hillside beyond. Possibly taken at Tigyaing on the Irrawaddy, just south of its junction with the Shweli. Subjects = river scenes Location = Burma; Irrawaddy (r...
Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of locations in India, the Persian Gulf, Burma, Florence, China (Yarkand in the latter-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), Zanzibar, the Andaman Islands, Balochistan, Scotland as well as group and individual portrait...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s-1880s
Extent:
232 b&w photographic prints, other printed material and 4 watercolour drawings, bound into a green and brown half leather album
Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of locations in India, the Persian Gulf, Burma, Florence, China (Yarkand in the latter-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), Zanzibar, the Andaman Islands, Balochistan, Scotland as well as group and individual portrait...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s-1880s
Extent:
232 b&w photographic prints, other printed material and 4 watercolour drawings, bound into a green and brown half leather album
Curzon Collection: Album 'Presented by the Reception Committee to Lord and Lady Curzon as a souvenir of Their Excellencies' visit to Rangoon, December 1901'. Photographer(s): Watts and Skeen
Scope & Content:
Black full-leather album, 356x475mm, containing mounted prints. The prints either have letterpress captions or captions in the negative. The front cover has the Curzon coat of arms in brass with the motto: 'Let Curzon holde what Curzon helde'. The corners of the front cover also have brass flora...
Dalhousie Street, [Rangoon], Soolay Pagoda in distance. Photographer: Watts and Skeen
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view with the Secretariat on the right. Subjects = British colonial architecture; Curzon Collection; secretariats; street scenes Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division