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Subject Earthquakes

101. Photo 1000/34(3486)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3486)
Title:
No. 37. Ava. Tower of the Palace. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the Nanmyin, a square brick and stucco watchtower, tilting and surrounded by fallen masonry. Letterpress continues: 'This is the only co-herent remains of the palace. The earthquake of 1839 covered the ground with the rest of it and tilted this considera...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

102. Photo 1000/34(3546)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3546)
Title:
No. 97. Mengoon. Pagoda from N.W. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the massive, cracked and ruinous pagoda (allegedly the largest mass of brickwork in the world). The Irrawaddy can be seen in the background. Letterpress continues: 'Begun but never completed by King Mendaraggee about the end of last century. It i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

103. Photo 1000/34(3547)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3547)
Title:
No. 98. Mengoon. Pagoda from S.E. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography With nearest corner collapsed. Letterpress continues: 'This corner shows the effects of the earthquake most completely. On reaching the top by it, the surface is seen rent into broad and deep fissures - a glacier in brickwork'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnum...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

104. Photo 1351/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1351/4
Title:
Photograph album compiled by a soldier serving in India. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Snapshot album compiled by an unidentified soldier serving in India (not apparently connected with other items in Photo 1351). The album contains 392 small prints, mostly captioned, a mixture of amateur and purchased work compiled (from the evidence of dated images) between 1926 and 1936. Subjec...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1926-1936
Extent:
Photograph album containing 392 prints

105. Photo 1356

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1356
Title:
McCabe Collection: Photograph album of Assam and album of press cuttings
Scope & Content:
Collection comprising two items: Photo 1356/1. Photograph album 1880s-(?)1940s, belonging to Anne McCabe and relating principally to the career of Robert Blair McCabe, Indian Civil Service, in Assam, including a series of views of the effects of the Shillong Earthquake of 1897, in which McCabe ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
Two albums

106. Photo 1356/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1356/1
Title:
Photograph Album of Anne McCabe. Photographer(s) A. de Hone and others
Scope & Content:
Half-leather and maroon pebbled cloth album measuring 280 mm x 385 mm, with elaborate decorative inscription on front pastedown reading: Anne McCabe from Her Husband Xmas 1899. The identity of Anne McCabe's husband is unclear: although many of the photographs in the album relate to Robert Blair ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880s-1900s
Extent:
1 item