Title(s)

Reisalbum met foto's van bezienswaardigheden in Birma
Burma (title on object)

Object type

• photograph album
• scrapbook

Object number

RP-F-F01101

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘W.M. Spooner & Co., Photographers and Publishers, 379, Strand, W.C.’

Description

Fotoalbum in band van imitatieleer. Op het voorplat de titel 'Burma' in gouddruk. Ook de rug en de hoekpunten hebben versieringen in gouddruk. De schutbladen hebben een marmermotief. Het album bevat 18 bladen met goud op snee en 36 foto's met onderschriften. Het zijn stads-, straat- en havengezichten in Birma, onder meer met pagodes, tempels en olifanten. Ook portretten van koning Thibaw Min, de laatste koning van Birma, koningin Supayalat en andere Birmezen. Vermoedelijk dateert het album van 1885-1886, toen koning Thibaw door de Britten tot aftreden werd gedwongen en de annexatie van Birma voltooid werd.

Artist

• diverse vervaardigers
• anonymous
• publisher: W.M. Spooner & Co. (mentioned on object)

Place

Birma
publisher: London

Dating

c. 1885 - c. 1886

Material

• imitation leather
• cardboard
• paper
• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 285 mm × width c. 785 mm × width 390 mm × thickness 30 mm

What

• travelling; tourism

Where

• Birma

Acquisition

transferred 1994

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• View of the Strand Road in Yangon, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-A)
• Two Burmese men posing by the pagodas and lion statues in Wuntho, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-AA)
• Bullock cart with Burmese people in front of a pagoda and a monastery, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-AB)
• Exterior of the Golden Monastery of the Burmese queen Supayalat in Mandalay, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-AC)
• Capturing of elephants in Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-AD)
• Sailboats on water during a competiton, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-AE)
• Group of dancing girls, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-AF)
• Sculpture of Buddha in the Kyauktawgyi temple in Mandalay, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-AG)
• Boat on a river in a mountain gorge near Bhamo, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-AH)
• Portrait of King Thibaw Min of Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-AI)
• Portrait of queen Supayalat, the wife of king Thibaw Min of Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-AJ)
• View of the port of Yangon, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-B)
• Yangon seen across the river with a sailboat and floating logs in the foreground, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-C)
• Boats on Pazundaung Creek in Yangon, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-D)
• View of the Fytche Square with the Sule Pagoda in the middle, Yangon, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-E)
• View of Cantonment Gardens with the Shwedagon Pagoda at the horizon, Yangon, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-F)
• View of the Royal Lakes with the Shwedagon Pagoda at the horizon, Yangon, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-G)
• Shwedagon Pagoda with praying people at the foreground, Yangon, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-H)
• Street view at the Surti Sunni Jamah mosque, Yangon, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-I)
• Elephants working in timber extraction of Yangon, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-J)
• An elephant working in the timber extraction at Yangon, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-K)
• Temple at the Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-L)
• Portrait of a Burmese businessman, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-M)
• Portrait of an army commander of the late Burmese king, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-N)
• Four young Burmese women in a bullock cart, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-O)
• Portrait of a Burmese boy with tattooed or painted thighs, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-P)
• Portrait of a group of young Burmese women, children and a man sitting on a rug, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-Q)
• Portrait of a young women from Mandalay with an umbrella, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-R)
• Portrait of a Shan woman, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-S)
• A procession at the cremation of a priest in Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-T)
• Balcony of a monastery with carved decorations in Myingyan, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-U)
• Boat in possibly the Irrawaddy river, Sagaing, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-V)
• Street with rows of houses in Wuntho, Sagaing, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-W)
• Market street in Bhamo, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-X)
• Mandalay Palace from the south-east, Mandalay, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-Y)
• Military officials (possibly British) at the Chief Commissioner's House, Mandalay, Myanmar (RP-F-F01101-Z)