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Shwedagon Pagopda - Rangoon - Tozaung - prayer room Date: 1952
Shwedagon Pagoda - Rangoon 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 Bahan Road Date: 1952
Shwedagon Pagoda - Rangoon - Characteristic disregard for the overall unity, planned vista, care of detail, adds up to a hodge podge of interesting but not impressive structures. Date: 1952
Shwedagon Pagoda - Rangoon - From U Wisara Road, with two pungyis. Date: 1952
Shwedagon Pagoda - Rangoon - From Mount Pleasant Date: 1952
Shwedagon Pagoda - Rangoon - Overpowering domination of brilliant gold pyramid base of pagoda spire fore shortened. Surrounded by mushrooming pagoda shrines, some brilliant new red and gilt
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
Vegetable bazaar - Rangoon - Vegetable bazaar Date: 1952
Street traffic - Rangoon - Street traffic Date: 1952
Fraser Street bazaar - Rangoon - Fraser Street bazaar Date: 1952
Sidewalk Sales - Rangoon - Sidewalk Sales Date: 1952
Building the new Railroad Station - Rangoon - Building the new Railroad Station Date: 1952
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 - Street crowds Date: 1952
Independence Day - Rangoon - Brief, well-drilled, military parade: army, navy, marines, mounties in snappy blue and white uniforms
Independence Day - Rangoon - Brilliance of the Sule Pagoda in the early sunshine, as though it were inlaid with jewels, the bright colours of mens lungyis
leaving Port of Aden - Aden - Aden doesn t look like much in the daytime, just a few buildings at the foot of huge volcanic mountains. Date: 1951
Sunset - Indian Ocean - Sunset over the Indian Ocean Date: 1951
Port of Aden - Aden - It is a pest hole, as you are hounded everywhere. We saw people smoking water pipes and lying on cots in the street
Red Sea - Sudan - S.S.Salween shipboard swimming pool and play area - not normally supplied - but vital as there were lots of children. Date: 1951
Port Sudan - Sudan - S.S.Salween - Purser Mr. Brewer, with Anne and Gillian Herbert-Jones. Average speed of the Salween is 14.2 knots Date: 1951
Port Sudan - Sudan - We drove back of the town to see the dames or villages where the natives live in little conical thatch huts and shanties
Port Sudan - Sudan - A whole crew of fuzzy-wuzzy Africans came on to man the ships winches. They have overrun the ship and have left a very distinctive odour. Date: 1951
Port Sudan - Sudan - dockside - three electric cranes on shore unload the vast amount of cargo for Khartoum in the hills. Date: 1951
Port Sudan - Sudan
Suez Canal - Egypt - S.S.Salween looking ahead Date: 1951
Suez Canal - Egypt - We saw great salt heaps on the desert flats where they evaporate sea water. Date: 1951
Port Said - Egypt - Long wait in the launch until it was our turn to go out to the gangway. Date: 1951
Port Said - Egypt - Clam digger Date: 1951
Port Said - Egypt - beach Date: 1951
Port Said - Egypt - Port Said seems a very transitory city, rather shabby and uninteresting, except for the great amount of shipping in the harbour. Date: 1951
Cairo - Egypt
Cairo - Egypt - Trolley to the Egyptian Museum. Saw what used to ornament the insides of the pyramids. Everything except the mummies, which out of respect, are shown only to scientists
Cairo - Egypt - bazaar - The guides have their little rackets that are hard to refuse if you aren t wise to them ahead of time
Cairo - Egypt - bazaar - The bazaar district was swarming with people, animals, carts and merchandise. Date: 1951
Cairo - Egypt - view back to Mohammed Ali Mosque from Sultan Hassan Mosque Date: 1951
Cairo - Egypt - view from Mohammed Ali mosque Date: 1951
Cairo - Egypt - Mohammed Ali Mosque - stone quarry in background. Date: 1951
Cairo - Gizeh - Egypt