No. 9. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Balcony of a Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view from below, showing detail of wood-carving on the balcony of the monastery. With letterpress note: 'Quite Burmese in its grotesqueness'.
Genre: Landscape Photography View of 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 ab...
No. 12. Tantabeng. Group of Pagodas. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of three ruined brick and stucco temples at Tantabeng, a few miles north of Yenangyaung on the east bank of the Irrawaddy (which is just visible in the extreme left background of this picture). The visit is mentioned in Yule's narrative, and Tanteben is mar...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Mahabodhi Pagoda at Pagan. With letterpress note: 'A peculiar specimen of Pugahm architecture rather Hindoo-like in style. The spire and walls outside are crowded with figures of Gautama in niches. In the enclosure in front are some fifty anc...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Shwegugyi Pagoda, which stands on a balustraded brick platform. With letterpress note: 'Or 'Golden Cane'. A good miniature specimen of the most decorated style of Pugahm architecture. It contains some remarkable inscriptions, and dates from a...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Thatbyinnyu Pagoda. With letterpress note: 'Or 'the Omniscient'. It is about 230 feet square, and 200 feet high; divided into two stages, each stage into two stories. An arched corridor passes round each stage, with arched doorways opening ou...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Patothamya Pagoda. With letterpress note: 'Apparently one of the most ancient of these temples; and probably dating from the tenth century'.
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the Gawdawpalin Pagoda complex and surrounding temples. With letterpress note: 'Or 'the throne of Gauda,' a celebrated Nat. This temple is very similar to the Thapinyu'.
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the plain dotted with temples, towards the Gawdawpawlin Pagoda, with the Irrawaddy in the background. With letterpress note: 'Taken from the top of Thapinyu. The ruins of all shapes and sizes seen in this view, give an idea of the manner in w...