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040-003130490 Subject Religious Buildings

1. Photo 1000/34(3552)

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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(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

3. 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

4. Photo 1000/34(3499)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3499)
Title:
No. 50. Amerapoora. Thamboukday Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking towards the small pagoda, its surface honeycombed with apertures. Letterpress continues: 'This curious little pagoda is literally covered with small niches (about 1100) containing figures of Gautama. The worshippers have carried their attent...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1000/34(3453)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3453)
Title:
No. 4. Prome. A small Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Letterpress continues: 'This and No. 5 are close together in an open space near the house in which Captain Latter was murdered'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (4).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1000/34(3454)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3454)
Title:
No. 5. Prome. A small Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Letterpress continues: 'The carved wood work of this has been stripped off. The centre building is of white stucco, gilt in the ornamental parts'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (5).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1000/34(3461)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3461)
Title:
No. 12. Tantabeng. Group of Pagodas. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Three ruined temples at Tantabeng, a few miles north of Yenangyaung on the east bank of the Irrawaddy (just visible in the background of this picture). The visit is mentioned in Yule's narrative, and Tanteben is marked (with a question mark) on the map in that v...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1855
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1000/34(3496)

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Photo 1000/34(3496)
Title:
No. 47. Amerapoora. Gateway behind the Statue. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards arched gateway leading to pagodas. Letterpress continues: 'The latter [viz. the statue of Buddha seen in print 46] is in a square enclosure formed by a well built wall nine feet high, in the centre of each side of which, is a Gateway like th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1000/34(3523)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3523)
Title:
No. 74. Amerapoora. Gautama's Shrine. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Shrine with figures of the Buddha receving homage from a white elephant and a nat. Letterpress continues: 'This is at the Sontoung-pyee-tiyne Pagoda. The white elephant and a Nat are making offerings to Gautama. The Nats, in Burman belief, are an order of being ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1000/34(3556)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3556)
Title:
No. 107. Rangoon. Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of Pagoda and platform. Note scaffolding around dome (see print 115). Letterpress continues: 'From H.M. 84th Barracks'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (107).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item