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Photo 92/11(231)
- Record Id:
- 041-003046486
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003045119
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x001377
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 92/11(231)
- Title:
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No. 38. Siamese post, Me Hsai, 1890. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
View looking towards the two thatched buildings of the Siamese border post. Scott's gazetteer records the Me Hsai as 'A small tributary of the Mekhong River, on its right bank...only important as marking for a portion of its length the frontier between Siam and Keng Tung. On the south side there is a small Lao village and a Siamese stockade; on the left bank there is a Keng Tung village known as Ta Khi Lek...From the Me Hsai fort roads lead to Keng Tung, Chieng Sen, and Chieng Hai. There is a good and extensive camping-ground.'
[Albumen print, 238x191mm].
Subjects = border posts; boundary commissions; Scott (Sir George) Collection
Location = Burma; Me Hsai; Myanmar; Shan
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003045119
040-003046256
041-003046486 - Is part of:
- Photo 92 : Sir James George Scott Collection: Photographs of Burma (particularly the Shan States). Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Photo 92/11 : Scott Collection: Album 'W', Views of Burma. Photographer(s): Sir George Scott, Felice Beato and others
Photo 92/11(231) : No. 38. Siamese post, Me Hsai, 1890. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George - Hierarchy:
- 032-003045119[0011]/040-003046256[0230]/041-003046486
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 92
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1890
- End Date:
- 1890
- Date Range:
- Jan 1890
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- 38
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Scott, Sir James George
- Subjects:
- Burma: Anglo-Siamese Boundary Commission, 1889-90