Myanmar Collection (page 11)

Sule Pagoda Road - Rangoon - View from Union Bank of Burma to Sule Pagoda and Bandoola Square with red flowering Kathit tree. Date: 1952

Independence Day - Rangoon - Brief, well-drilled, military parade: army, navy, marines, mounties in snappy blue and white uniforms

Kamakura Daibutsu - Japan - Daibutsu It is a bronze statue of seated Buddha, 600 years old, and in a nice outdoor setting. Smaller than I was expecting, smaller than several in Rangoon

Myanmar (Burma) - Pyin U Lwin (Maymyo)
Pyin U Lwin, Myanmar - The Government House. Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar (Burma) - Royal Lakes, Rangoon Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar - The Chief Court, Rangoon (Yangon) Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar (Burma) - Gubyaukgyi Pagoda at Bagan
Myanmar (Burma) - Bagan Pagoda - Gubyaukgyi (Myinkaba) built in 1113. The temple is in an Indian style, the monument consists of a large shrine room attached to a smaller antechamber

Village Cart - Myanmar (Burma) Date: circa 1905

A Burmese Gentleman from Yangon (Rangoon) Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar - Umbrella Makers Date: 1912

Burmese Harpist - Myanmar
Burmese Harpist, playing a traditional Burmese saung, also known as the saung-gauk, Burmese harp, or Burma harp. An arched harp used in traditional Burmese music

General Post Office, Yangon, Myanmar Date: circa 1910s

Mingun Bell nr. Mandalay, Myanmar
The Mingun Bell located in Mingun, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. This early photograph was taken prior to the bell being re-hung in 1896. It fell from its support following earthquake damage

Myanmar - Yangon - The Harbour Date: circa 1910s

Rangoon - Myanmar (formerly Burma) - Panoramic view of the Bridge at Goteik, the Cantonment Gardens and the Kings Palace in Mandalay. Date: circa 1902

Myanmar - Pearl Fishing Boat at Mergui
Myanmar (Burma) - Pearl Fishing Boat at the Mergui Archipelago Date: circa 1910s

Burmese solo male dancer in traditional costume
A Burmese solo male dancer in his traditional costume, holding his hands together. The dance has ancient origins and is linked to Chinese, Indian, Indonesian and Thai styles

A Burmese Lady
A pretty girl from Burma (modern Myanmar), seated in an elegant and decorative carved chair and holding a dark parasol. She has long dark hair and many metal bracelets on each arm

A Burmese girl preparing her make-up
A girl from Burma (modern Myanmar) preparing her make-up in front of a very European-style dressing table mirror, set on the floor

The Sampan Pagoda, Myanmar
Burma (Myanmar) - The Sampan Pagoda, with a golden stupa sitting atop this miraculously-balanced rock. In the history of Myanmar

Poster depicting a paddy field in Burma
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting a paddy field in Burma

Poster depicting the port of Rangoon
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting the port of Rangoon, Burma

Gurkha trooper firing in Burma, 1944 Date: 1944

Waiting for transports - Burma - 1944
British, West Africans and Gurkhas, the backbone of Wingates Burma Jungle forces, wait at the ramps to file into transports or gliders for the forward movement to Broadway

Allies rescue stricken C-47 - Burma
American forces of the Air Service Command, Chindits and Burmese farmers of the local neighbourhood, who between them managed to put a C-47 back in the air

Allied scouts cross a Burmese Jungle stream. Poised for action, a scouting detachment of armed Burmese patriot fighters, accompanied by two American soldiers

Scottish tank crew in Burma - 1945
Scottish tank crew in Burma, 15th March 1945. A Sherman tank passing a pagoda on the Taungtha road

U. S. 81mm Mortar overlooking the Burma Road
U.S. 81mm Mortar overlooking the Burma Road, Lashio, Burma - January / February, 1945. Japanese supply and communications lines were pounded during the battle for the strategic ground north of this

A Japanese patrol in a Mandalay Railway Yard, Burma

British 36th Division in Burma - 1944
Two members of the British 36th Division (consisting of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and the East Lancashire Regiment)

Brigadier Cotterill-Hill wades ashore - Burma
Ramree Island on the Burma coast invaded. Brigadier Cotterill-Hill, commanding the 71st Indian brigade, wades ashore - 194"

19th Indian Dagger Division - Burma
Tanks and infantry of the 19th Indian Dagger Division move up to the attack - Burma

Making a jeep railroad - Burma
Making a jeep railroad. A supply line constructed by Indian engineers to run to Mandalay in readiness for expansion further south into Burma

Burma (Myanmar) - Rangoon (Yangon) - Prisoners
Prisoners awaiting their breakfast in a Yangon (formerly Rangoon) Jail, Myanmar (formerly Burma)

Young Girl from Burma (Myanmar) standing in front of a stunning woven reed wall

Myanmar Yenan Gyaung
General view from the Irrawaddy river

Myanmar Yangon
Entry to the Grand Pagoda

Myanmar Tenasserim
Thien (1852) is unfindable today, but my guess is that it is Tenasserim, on the southern coast of Myanmar

Myanmar Mandalay
Bird s-eye view of the town, seen from the hill

Myanmar Amarapura
The Buddhist monastery, near Mandalay

Myanmar Moulmein
The Moulmein Pagoda, near Mandalay (in the distance) best known to us all by Kiplings poem The road to Mandalay

Burmese Housewives
Burmese housewives occupied with domestic tasks and dealing with tradesmen

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