[Studio portrait of two Burmese women.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length studio portrait of two women, seated on a carpet in front of a backdrop of a painted rustic scene. The faces of both women are heavily made up in white. The notes accompanying the photographs identify these women as wives of the Sawbwa of Yaunghwe, but th...
[Speech being delivered in front of the Civic Hall, Rangoon.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events View looking towards figures on the steps of the building, with guard of honour in foreground. The figure giving the speech, seen somewhat distantly, has not been identified with certainty, although the notes accompanying the photographs name him, surely incorrectly, as...
Four snapshots, showing (a) Three Burmese women holding their babies, (b) garden with servants, (c) unidentified child, (d) unidentified woman. Subjects = Thirkell White Collection
Capt Thomson [with] Sagaing Police [Football] Team. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Police Football Team, with Captain Alexander James Douglas Thomson seated centre. [207x153mm]. Subjects = Burmese Police; football; sports; Thirkell White Collection Location = Burma; Myanmar; Sagaing; Sagaing Division
Four small prints showing a camp on a hill top in the Burmese countryside. The notes accompanying the photographs identify this as the camp of Sir Herbert Thirkell White. The figures seen standing at the entrance to a makeshift hut in print (d) may be Sir Herbert and Lady Thirkell White. Subje...
[View across the Royal Lake, Rangoon.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the lake towards the Shwe Dagon Pagoda on the skyline. [136x81mm]. Subjects = Thirkell White Collection Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
[Wedding group of Maxwell Laurie, Government House, Rangoon.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Wedding group posed on the terrace of Government House, Rangoon. The main participants, Maxwell Laurie and his bride, and the occasion, are identified in a note by the Laurie's daughter. Sir Herbert Thirkell White stands with Maxwell Laurie in the back row. Mrs Lauir...