Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the street of traders' shops from above. Subjects = bazaars; street scenes Location = Bhamo; Burma; Kachin; Myanmar
Dacoits captured in Ye-U jungles [Burma]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of dacoits posed in front of a bamboo palisade, their muskets heaped on the ground in front of them. Possibly photographed at Pakokku. Subjects = Burmese (ethnic group); crime and criminals; dacoits; ethnic groups Location = Burma; Magwe; Myanmar; Pak...
Shan loading Commissariat stores for King Theebaw [?Mandalay]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Shan traders loading up a caravan. This is very probably a later photograph than the caption implies (which would date the photograph to 1885, the date of Thibaw's deposition, at the latest). The whole album appears to be the work of Beato, who was almost certa...
Genre: Historical Events Showing attack on the stockade, with bugler, soldier attending an injured man, etc. 400 men under Captain Davies took the heavily-fortified stockade on 22 February 1891, although this is evidently a posed photograph, probably taken after the event. Subjects = British ...