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040-003130490 Subject Architecture

1. Photo 1000/34(3552)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3552)
Title:
No. 103. Rangoon. The Church. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1000/34(3550)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3550)
Title:
No. 101. Rangoon. A Street; old Style. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical 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 giv...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1000/34(3501)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3501)
Title:
No. 52. Amerapoora. Mosque. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the ornately embellished minaret of the mosque at Amarapura. Letterpress continues: 'This is in China Street. There are some thousands of Mahomedans and numbers of Mosques in and about Amerapoora. The architecture of the latter partakes much...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1000/34(3487)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3487)
Title:
No. 38. Amerapoora. Portico of the Residency. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the courtyard, looking towards the open-sided portico. Letterpress continues: 'This covered a square of ninety feet having a dome-like roof of thatched bamboo, and closed on the outer side by a Proscenium for Marionettes, draperied with blue cloth lace...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1000/34(3563)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3563)
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

6. Photo 1000/34(3520)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3520)
Title:
No. 71. Amerapoora. A street leading to the Palace. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street with lined with single-storied thatched houses towards the pyathat of the palace in the distance. Letterpress continues: 'The Ooh-nein gate leads into this street. The Palace is the centre of the city, and the streets leading fr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1000/34(3460)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3460)
Title:
No. 11. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Chatty Manufactory. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography A pottery at Yenangyaung, with thatched buildings and a pile of chatties or round earthenware pots lying in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'Petroleum is exported from Ye-nan-gyoung (whence its name river of fetid water) in pots such as represented above'. A ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1000/34(3478)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3478)
Title:
No. 29. Tsagain Myo [Sagain]. A roadway. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Looking along a path, with small private houses with wooden tiled roofs on either side. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (29).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1000/34(3482)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3482)
Title:
No. 33. Tsagain Myo [Sagain]. Zayat. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the small white single-storey brick and stucco building, set amongst trees. Letterpress continues: ' Buildings of this kind are both for secular and religious purposes. They are resting places for travellers, refectories for votaries of the Templ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1000/34(3506)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3506)
Title:
No. 57. Amerapoora. Street in the Suburbs. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a street, with small private houses in the foreground, an open-sided resthouse (zayat) in the centre, and a monastery and temples beyond. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (57).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item