Genre: Landscape Photography Showing a small open boat on the patent slip on the Rangoon River. Letterpress continues: 'In the government dockyard'. Subjects = docks and dockyards; shipbuilding; transport; water transport Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
No. 103. Rangoon. The Church. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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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...
Genre: Landscape Photography Letterpress continues: 'A fallen tree over Tiger Alley near the American Mission at Kemindine'. Tiger Alley was one of the roads leading out of Rangoon to the north. Subjects = bridges Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Genre: Landscape Photography Pathway through forest. Letterpress continues: 'A beautiful ravine near Kemindine'. The Kemendine district is in the west part of Rangoon. Subjects = Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
No. 105. Rangoon. View of the Cantonment. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Landscape Photography Panoramic view composed of two joined prints, looking south-east from the Shwe Dagon Pagoda over the cantonment area towards the Signal Pagoda in the distance. Letterpress continues: 'From the upper platform of the great Pagoda, looking S. and S.E. Pussendown [Pazun...
No. 114. Rangoon. The Votive Tree. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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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...
Genre: Architectural Photography Rear view of the massive headless chinthes in front of the Mingun Pagoda, with the Irrawaddy River beyond. Letterpress continues: 'In front of the Pagoda. These were 95 feet high; but, like the latter, were shattered by the earthquake of 1839. The heads and neck...
No. 102. Rangoon. Signal Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the temple, with chinthes facing the roadway at the entrance. The circular object hanging from a yard at the top of the pagoda is presumably a time ball. Letterpress continues: 'From this a very extended view of the town and river can be had. It ...
No. 104. Rangoon. The Lake. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking over the Royal Lake in what was to become Dalhousie Park. Probably taken from the Signal Pagoda, with buildings of the infantry barracks in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'To the east of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, a park is to be formed around it; ...
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 ...
