Shan Collection

CRESQUES, Jafuda (1350-1410); CRESQUES, Abraham ( -1381). Catalan Atlas. 1375. Fifth Leaf. Map of Delli. Detail. Camel caravan in the Silk Road to Catai crossing the mountains of Tian Shan

RMS Titanic - book, Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder
RMS Titanic - Thomas Andrews's family copy of Shan F. Bullock's definitive volume, Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder, 1912 first edition. Provenance Andrews family. Date: 1912

Macao: view from the forts of Heang-Shan. Date: circa 1840

KIN-SHAM HOUSE
Kin-Shan a house in Nunthorpe, Yorkshire Date: 1911

Tomb of Princess Yongtai. 706. Tang court ladies from a mural of Lady Li Xianhuis tomb. Chinese art. Tang period. Fresco. CHINA. SHANSI. Shaanxi History Museum. Proc: CHINA. SHANSI. Xian

China / Seaou-Koo-Shan
A remarkable island (the name means Little Orphan Hill) in the Yangtse-Kiang river : it is surmounted by a temple although its situation must discourage worshippers

Indigenous Tribal people - The Shan, Burma (Myanmar). The Shan are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia. Date: circa 1909

Indigenous Tribal people - Upper Burma (Myanmar) - Possibly the Shan of Northern Burma Date: circa 1909

Myanmar - A Shan Beauty - Studio Photographic Portrait. The Shan live primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar, but also inhabit parts of Mandalay Division, Kachin State, and Kayin State

Nawnghkio, Shan State, Myanmar - Goteik Railway Viaduct
The Goteik viaduct - a railway trestle in Nawnghkio, western Shan State, Myanmar. When completed, it was the largest railway trestle in the world - constructed in 1899

Stele of Seti I from Beth Shean, 1289-1278 BC, basalt. Rocke
Stele of Seti I from Beth Shean, 1289-1278 BC, basalt. Commemorates the military expedition to Canaan to end the revolt.Rockefeller Museum

China - Hsiang Shan Bay (Nimrod Sounds)
Zhejiang, China - Native village on Hsiang Shan Bay (Nimrod Sounds) Date: circa 1930s

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Army blow up Sungshushan Fort
Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Army blowing up the Sung-shu-shan fort (Pine Tree Hill) - Port Arthur. Date: 1904

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese charge East Kee-kwan-shan fort
Russo-Japanese War - Japanese charge East Kee-kwan-shan Fort. The surround echoes the melee of battle with a discarded Russian gun and cap amid the smoke Date: 1905

Pyin Oo Lwin, Shan Highland, Myanmar
Pyin Oo Lwin (or Pyin U Lwin, formerly Maymyo) a hill town in Mandalay Division, Myanmar in the Shan Highland. Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar - A Shan Archer
Myanmar (Burma) - A Shan Archer. The Shan are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia. Date: circa 1910s

CHINA. SHANSI. Warriors of Xi an (1st c. )
CHINA. SHANSI. Warriors of Xi an (1st c.)

Figure of Pig of the Chinese Zodiac. 618 - 907. Chinese art. Tang period. Ceramics. CHINA. Beijing. Museum of History of China. Proc: CHINA. Xian

Tomb of Princess Yongtai. 706. CHINA. Xian. Tumb of Li Xian Hui, Princess Yongtai. Detail with servants. Chinese art. Han period. Fresco

CHINA. Xian. City walls

Terracotta Army. 221-206 BC. CHINA. Xian. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Qin Si Huang. Chinese art. Qin period

weavers family - Inle Lake
Weavers family - Inle Lake - Upstairs a wide balcony, one big dark room. Cordiality of the women of the house. We go downstairs to the weaving room under the house

Shan famers - Kalaw - Shan farmers with their produce baskets Date: 1952

Heho Valley - Central Burma - Over strangely treeless moors, climbing up from the Shan Plateau, wide, wide view that seemed like pictures of the African Veldt. Date: 1952

Peasant home near Ayuthaya - Thailand - Peasant home Most of the bamboo and frame cottages are built on a mound of fill above the flooded land

Zhongshan Park, Xiamen, China - Buddhist Temple
Buddhist Temple at the Zhongshan Park at Xiamen (Amoy) on the southeast (Taiwan Strait) coast of the Peoples Republic of China. Date: circa 1910s

China / See Lang Shan
We have not been able to identify this place with a modern location, but it is probably in the vicinity of Beijing

Conrad / Typhoon / Storm
TYPHOON Short story by Joseph Conrad The steamer Nan-Shan in the storm

China Putuo Shan
(formerly Puto Shan) - small island in the Zhoushan Archipelago, a centre of Buddhism noted for its temples

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