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Photo 1051/1

Record Id:

040-003165289

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003165288

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026374023.0x00022a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 1051/1

Title:

Views in the Southern Shan States. Photographer(s): Unknown

Scope & Content:

Green cloth-covered album measuring 182x140mm, stamped 'Photographs' in gilt on front cover and with handwritten title ' Some Views in the Southern Shan States,' on front fixed endpaper, containing 48 snapshot views. The only dated photograph is print 1, which shows an informal group of Burmese and Europeans, and is titled 'Lawksawk, 1911.' The album also contains two good portraits (prints 2 and 3) of the Sawbwa of Lawksawk and some of his family. The remaining views show a procession into Lawksawk town, camp scenes near the Nam Lang, crossing the Nam Lang, river scenes (Nam Lang in Pamien Ngok Gorge, Kaukpeit Gorge, Teng River, Salween, Me Hang), views at Mawkmai, Mongnai, Hwehawm (Bombay-Burma Trading Company carting track), Ponpachem, Taungthu (pagoda festival), Kadugyi Bazaar, Hsatung (pagoda under construction), Keng Hkam, etc.

The album was possibly compiled by an employee of the Bombay-Burma Trading Corporation while on a tour of duty.

Process = Gelatin silver prints, printing-out paper, etc.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003165288
040-003165289

Is part of:

Photo 1051 : Miscellaneous photographs of Java, Burma and Africa. Photographer(s): Hurley, Frank

Photo 1051/1 : Views in the Southern Shan States. Photographer(s): Unknown

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003165288[0001]/040-003165289

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

48 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Start Date:

1910

End Date:

1912

Date Range:

c 1911

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 135 mm x 80 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Presented by Yu-Chee Chong, August 1998.

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known