Burma Collection (page 100)

firewood delivery - Rangoon
Firewood delivery - Rangoon - bullock cart and wood man Date: 1951

Kokine Valley Road - Rangoon

Pongyis - Rangoon - Pongyis on Kokine Road Date: 1951

Kokine village - Rangoon - Kokine Village Date: 1951

garden of Mount Pleasant - Rangoon
Garden of Mount Pleasant - Rangoon - Anne and Ellen in garden on 22 Mount Pleasant Date: 1951

children of House Staff - Rangoon
Children of House Staff - Rangoon - Anne with Zenabee and Aung Thein Date: 1951

House Staff - Rangoon - Sultan (butler) with wife Amu and daughter Zenabee Date: 1951

Mount Pleasant village - Rangoon - Bashas below 22 Mount Pleasant Date: 1951

22 Mount Pleasant - Rangoon - house and garden Date: 1951

U Tin Pe and Daw Zun - Kalaw - U Tin Pe and wife Daw Zun (parents of U Tin Tun, of Union Bank of Burma) 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

Jungles en route to Kalaw - Central Burma - Great sharp valleys and long ridges, dense with jungle. We fly at about 8, 000 feet and sometimes seem close over the endless green of lumpy tree tops

Heho airport - Central Burma - An oversized pasture with little basha administrative huts. Date: 1952

Family with Holmess - Moulmein - With Cal and Mary Holmes. Cal was Chief Officer of the Steele Companies of Burma, including teak, china, cotton, and rice milling an old Burma hand Date: 1951

Shimbyu dancer - Rangoon - Member of the street parade. Date: 1952

Shimbyu - Rangoon - Offerings by family to the monastery. Pungyi robes are woven and dyed in a single night, great honour gained by those completing theirs first

Kamayut fire walking festival - Rangoon - Down the centre is a shallow pit about 20 feet long, 4 feet wide of glowing charcoal fire

Indian temple - Rangoon - near Kamayut Date: 1952

Umbrella bamboo - Rangoon - Thi wa, at Kalaw Date: 1952

Peace Pagoda Parade - Rangoon

Thankin Nus Peace Pagoda - Rangoon - Peace Pagoda being built (U Nu - President of Burma at the time). It is a different style from the usual bell shaped ones that cannot be entered

Bougainvilla - Rangoon - at Kalaw Date: 1952

Jacaranda and Deodar trees - Rangoon - on Pagoda Hill, Kalaw Date: 1952

Cannas - Rangoon - in Mount Pleasant garden Date: 1952

Water hyacinths in paddy field - Rangoon - Water hyacinths in paddy field Date: 1952

Cantonment Gardens - Rangoon - Cantonment Gardens Date: 1952

Palm patterns - Rangoon - Fishtail palm easy to transplant. Toddy Palmyra Tau fan shaped frond. Coconut palm long feathery frond. Date: 1952

Cassia tree - Rangoon

Pink cassia - Rangoon - deep apple blossom, pea family leaf Date: 1952

Pink cassia in Kalaw - Rangoon - Pink cassia in Kalaw Date: 1952

Mu tree - Rangoon - Mu Tree Date: 1952

Indian laburnum - Rangoon - ngu yellow wisteria style blossom. Date: 1952

Frangipani - Rangoon - tayak sigah - From China, evergreen kind prettiest. Cuttings transplant easily in rainy season. Date: 1952

Rusty shield bearer - Rangoon - deep gold yellow, tight clustered blossoms, pea family Date: 1952

Royal Poinsiana in Churchill Road - Rangoon - Royal Poinsiana in Churchill Road Date: 1952

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

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