Rangoon Collection (page 5)

Royal Poinsiana - Rangoon - Royal Poinsiana Date: 1952

Twante Canal - Rangoon

Twnate Canal - Rangoon - We stopped at the official tollhouse and our junior officer captain had chairs and tables set out for our tea under a huge Ginko tree

Pazundaung Creek - Rangoon - Pazundaung Creek Date: 1952

Irawaddy River - Rangoon - teak basin Date: 1952

Bashas near cantonement grounds - Rangoon - Bashas near cantonement grounds Date: 1952

Buffalo bath - Rangoon - We stared at great black water buffalo, staring at us from their cool wallow in the mud. Date: 1952

Rice - thatch making - Rangoon Date: 1952

Buffalo family - Rangoon - near Kyiakausan Date: 1952

Rice - paddy straw gleaners - Rangoon

Rice - granary - Rangoon - on Mandalay Road Date: 1952

Rice - paddy sifting near Kyiakausan - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - threshing floor - Rangoon -.about 50 feet square, we could see what they had been watering down carefully yesterday afternoon, was cow dung, smooth and hard as cement. Date: 1952

Rice - Kokine, paddy plough - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - paddy threshing - Rangoon - Three white bullocks with a driver walked in a never-ending circle, around and around on the piled paddy, walking the grains out

Rice - paddy workers stacking ricks - Rangoon - They were still in process of cutting and piling and preparing threshing floors for the stacked paddy bundles. Date: 1952

Rice - paddy workers basha - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - paddy fields - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - paddy workers - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - transplanting paddy - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - pulling paddy seedlings - Rangoon Date: 1952

Parasol making - Rangoon - Every basha hut along Thi Daing (Parasol Road) is a little factory in one phase of parasol making

Brick making kilns - Rangoon -.. before firing. Date: 1952

Brick making hand shaping - Rangoon - then at tables under a thatched sun shelter, teams of three shape and press it into metal moulds, some children aged 12 (but look more like 8)

Brick making buffalo mill to soften clay - Rangoon -. to pour into a super meat grinder with bullocks going round and round to squeeze it into a malleable mass... Date: 1952

Brick making clay pit - Rangoon - Deep clay pits with sweating Indians carrying up baskets of the rich clay on their heads, . Date: 1952

Blind spinning girl - Rangoon - Kemmendine School for the Blind I asked if the girls would let me take their pictures and the matron spread a mat under a tree

Chinese Funeral - Rangoon - I saw no bier, but the children had been able to, right from the school balconies, set out in the street under a richly embroidered drapery

Chinese Temple Keeper - Rangoon - on Kokine Road Date: 1951

Chinese Temple - Rangoon - on Kokine Road Date: 1951

Rangoon Rubber Plantation - Rangoon - Without enough rubber, know how, or equipment, they cant get made badly- needed tyres, but they certainly let themselves go on balloons. Date: 1951

Prayer Flag Seller - Rangoon - near Chinese temple Date: 1951

Balloons and Anne - Rangoon - Met a balloon man with a fantastic armful of Walt Disneyish balloons they sell here for 2 annas. Date: 1951

Dhobi area - Rangoon - Public laundry washing area Date: 1951

Bandoola Square - Rangoon - Sule Pagoda, children with Driver Date: 1951

Kemmendine - basha fire - Rangoon - Fire-fighting equipment arrives promptly and Doug and I got to watch it extinguished and surrounding houses being wet down by hoses from water trucks

Movie Marquee - Rangoon - Went to see maha Penmai a legendary character derived from the ancient drama of Rama. Costumes like those of the gnats in pagodas

Chinthe at Kyiakausan - Rangoon - Chinthes guard all the pagoda entrances Date: 1952

Shwedagon Pagoda food sellers - Rangoon - Shwedagon Pagoda food sellers Date: 1952

Sacred Turtle pool - Rangoon - Sacred Turtle pool Date: 1952

Shwedagon Sacred Pool - Rangoon - filled with stagnant green water, being dribbled into eyes, ears, and mouth from dipped fingers. Date: 1952

Shwedagon Pagopda - Rangoon - Tozaung - prayer room Date: 1952

Shwedagon Pagoda -propitiating Gnats - Rangoon

Shwedagon Pagoda east Tozaung - Rangoon - Glass mosaic work like antique jewelry, pleasing. Date: 1952

Shwedagon Pagoda - Rangoon - From Mount Pleasant Date: 1952

Charter Bank House, Mount Pleasant - Rangoon -.telling how splendid the homes and gardens of Rangoon used to be before the war no basha huts, no lack of paint

Union Bank of Burma - Rangoon

Vegetable farmer - Rangoon - on Kokine Road Date: 1952

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