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Birney, Reverend D. (Baptist Missionary to Burma)

An old black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of fort and western town, Mandalay

Photograph shows a bird's-eye view of Burma. In album: p. 50, no. 12.
The charity pagoda surrounded by the 733 little pagodas each containing a chapter of the Buddhist law engraved on a marble slab

Photograph shows a bird's-eye view of the "Charity" or Sandamuni Pagoda surrounded by smaller pagodas in Mandalay, Burma.
Burmese women only are allowed to hunt for rubies that may escape from the companies washing pans into the mud outisde the wire line, Mogok

Photograph shows view of ruby mine with structure in the background and women, in the foreground, searching in pools and ditches for rubies that have spilled out of the washing pans. In album: p. 63, no. 73.
Padaung girls from South Shan States, Burma

Two girls, full-length portrait, posed, showing front and back of neck-plated helmets. In album: p. 70, no. 94.
Padaung girls from the South Shan States

Photograph shows two girls, full-length portrait, posed, facing front, wearing traditional Burmese dress. In album: p. 69, no. 93.
Marvelous elaboration of a Buddhist shrine built by a rich citizen of Rangoon, Burma

No. (7)-9021. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mandalay - tower of palace. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a castle, view, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
W.H. Jackson in railroad trolley car pushed by natives

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Illustrated sign on railway coach - "Pongyis and Burmese men only"

Published in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 1120. Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Rangoon - elephant about to lift large beam

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Two Burmese boys, lantern slide

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Mandalay - pagodas, lantern slide

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Burial ceremony of a priest near Mandalay

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Illustrated sign on railway coach - "Women only"

Published in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 1120 Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Woman selling refreshments from tray at railway station

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Rangoon - pagoda scene, lantern slide

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Rangoon - entrance to pagoda. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Buddhist monastery at Sagaing, near Mandalay

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Peddlers at railway station. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Rangoon - statue of Buddha - Egypt

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Burmah: elephant working, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha More
Burmah: elephant working - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain image of a group of people, ceremony, event, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Superbly gilded and scupltured funeral chariots ready for Buddhist procession, Mandalay, Burma

Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fantastically gorgeous funeral pagoda of a great Buddist, and crowds in square, Mandalay, Burma

Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mandalay people watch a splendid funeral procession of Buddhist Archbishop chariots in square, Burma

Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Crowds on a religious holiday, around Buddhist funderal cars gay with gilden spires, Mandalay, Burma

Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Crowds on a religious holiday, around Buddist funeral cars gay with gilded spires, Mandalay, Burma

Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
White-robed bellies of Mandalay in funeral procession of their Buddhist Archbishop, Burma

Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fantastic and costly chariots shaped like pagodas and elephants, funeral procession, Mandalay, Burma

Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Splendid, honors to a dead Buddhist--elevating coffin in car to a gilded shrine, Mandalay, Burma

Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fantastic and costly chariots shaped liked pagodas and elphants--funeral procession, Mandalay, Burma

Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Seated figures of four great Buddhas near Rangoon, noted among the idols of Burmah i. e. Burma

Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The colossal reclining Gaudama Buddha, 200 ft. long, 50 ft. across shoulders, near Rangoon, Burmah i. e. Burma

Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
One of the 12 ornamental gates in the walls of Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma

No. 14538. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
China's welcome to T. R. H.--archway built of material brought from Canton--Rangoon, Burma

No. 8781. Public domain image of 19th century China, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
T.R.H. leaving Sule Pagoda wharf for Government House, Rangoon, Burma

British(?) officials seated in a horse-drawn carriage driven by two Burmese men. H85864 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. U-94406. No. 8773.
(21)-9031 Fight between best of 50 couples (champion at left)--funeral festivity at Mandalay, Burma

No. (21)-9031 Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Burmese ladies at the garden party, Government House, Rangoon, Burma

No. 8779. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
T. R. H. the Prince and Princess of Wales and party, at Government House, Rangoon, Burma

No. 8780. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
T. R. H. advancing to dais to open Victoria Memorial Park, Rangoon, Burma

No. 8776. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
An elephant putting a huge log of teakwood into place, lumber yard, Rangoon, Burma

No. 14559. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Entrance colonnade to the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, most sacred of Buddhist Shrines, Rangoon, Burma

No. 14510. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Queen's Golden Monastery, a gem of oriental architecture, Mandalay, Burma

No. 14534. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The great cone-shaped Sule Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma

No. 14508 Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
East Bazaar road, with porters going on errands and children at play, Rangoon, Burma

No. (9)-9018. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Looking across the moat (300 ft. wide) to the walls of Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma

No. 14537. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Entrance to the Arrakan Pagoda, one of the most splendid Buddhist temples in Burma, Mandalay, Burma

No. 14531. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coolies unloading rice-boats from the up-country districts. Rangoon, Burma

No. (3)-9015. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pagodas treasuring copies of Buddhist scriptures, Mandalay, Burma

No. (15)-9027 Public domain photograph of Jerusalem, Palestine, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Burma's most holy place of worship, 370 ft. high, Rangoon

No. (8)-9018. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dickering and bargaining on every side--in the market at Mandalay, Burma

No. 14535. Public domain photograph of people at the picnic, in the park, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The elephant at work transporting heavy teakwood logs in a lumber yard, Rangoon, Burma

No. 14558. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The fortress garden with famous Shwe Dagon Pagoda mirrored in its lake, Rangoon, Burma

No. (9)-9017. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Temple of 450 pagodas, each recording on stone a section of the law of Buddha, Mandalay, Burma

No. 14536. Public domain photograph of sculpture, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Immense Image of Buddha at the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma

No. 14511. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Inside Audience Hall where ambassadors used to approach the King, Mandalay, Burma

No. (18)-9080 Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pinnacled heights of Pagoda hill, crowned with innumerable shrines, Moulmein, Burma

Native with basket on head in foregrd.; pagodas in backgrd. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 14515. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracin More
The Sule Dagon Pagoda, visited by T. R. H. the Prince and Princess of Wales, Rangoon, Burma

No. 8781. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The sacred turtle tank and the gorgeous Arrakan Pagoda, Mandalay, Burma

No. 14532. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Beautiful gilded and carved teakwood shrines before the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma

No. 14509. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
King Mindon's old fort at Mandalay from the airy shelf at "Sensation Corner"

No. (14)-9026 Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The intelligent elephant carrying huge blocks of teakwood, lumber yards, Rangoon, Burma

No. 14512. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Burmese ladies of their way to the bazaar, Mandalay, Burma

No. 14533. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Haix, candles and flags offered before image of religious meditation Rangoon, Burma

No. (11)-9028. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alabaster statues in a Rangoon pagoda, symbolic of Buddha's spiritual experience, Burma

No. (10)-9022. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"The king of wood-pilers" at work carrying huge timbers, before the royal party, Rangoon, Burma

No. 8778. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A pause on the steep stairway up the side of a sacred Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma

No. (7)-9019. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bewildering Splendor of street parade in honor of dead Buddhist Archbishop, Mandalay, Burma

Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Prison guard - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photograph shows two uniformed and armed prison guards in Rangoon, Burma. In album: China, Singapore, Burmah, India, Aden, Suez, Egypt, Palestine, 1910-20(?). Copyright by Carpenter's World Travels. Forms part More
Big Tree, Rangoon - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rangoon prisoners - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photograph shows five male prisoners squatting with hands pressed together amidst a fibrous material in Rangoon, Burma. In album: China, Singapore, Burmah, India, Aden, Suez, Egypt, Palestine, 1910-20(?). Copy More
Big Tree, Rangoon, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha More
Man's faithful servant--an elephant carrying block of teakwood in the lumber yards, Rangoon, Burma

No. 12557. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Queer looking rowboats used at Rangoon, Burma

No. 27451. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A treacherous section of the Burma road

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A section of the Burma road showing the construction of the road

Image source: U.S. Public Health Service, after Dr. L.L. Williams. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi More
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway. This hospital along the Burma Road made over from the estate of a wealthy Chinese for war wounded was immediately filled up with malaria cases

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A section of the Burma road showing the construction of the road

Public domain photograph related to Chinese history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A section of the Burma road

Image source: U.S. Public Health Service, after Dr. B. Mayne. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1 More
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A village street along the Burma road with a ditch running down the center. The anopheles minimus mosquito will not breed in this dirty water

Image source: U.S. Public Health Service, after Dr. L.L. Williams Jr. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Div More
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A village street along the Burma road with a ditch running down the center. The anopheles minimus mosquito will not breed in this dirty water

Public domain photograph related to Chinese history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. The old Burma road passing through a village. The bridge is used only when the water is high

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A section of the Burma road

Public domain photograph related to Chinese history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. The old Burma road passing through a village. The bridge is used only when the water is high

Image source: U.S. Public Health Service, after Dr. B. Mayne. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1 More
Veterans of the Medium Bomber Squadron 14th Airforce who blasted Tokyo with General Doolittle and are still dealing aerial blows to Japs in occupied China, Burma. Standing, left to right: Lieutenant Youngblood, Houston, Texas; Captain Crouch, Columbia, South Carolina; Lieutenant Mauch Staunton, Virginia; Lieutenant Fitzhugh, Gavelston, Texas; Captain Campbell, Orofino, Idaho; On motor, Sergeant Norton, Cape Cod, Massachusetts; On propeller, Sergeant Radney, Minneola, Texas; In cockpit of "Tokyo Jo," Major Everett Holstrom, Tacoma, Washington

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
There was no military objective in this happy Burmese village. The object of the savage Japanese bombing was to create panic and drive the native population on to the roads and into the jungle

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: British Ministry of Information? Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overs More
Queue of Chinese warriors, central sector of China's Salween front

Photograph shows Chinese soldiers marching along a narrow section of the Burma Road toward the fighting lines on the Salween front. Title from news agency caption on item. Photograph by Frank Cancellare. ACME P More
Fighter pilot interviewed after escape. Left to right: Jack Jarrel, INS correspondent; Captain Jesse Carney, 14th Air Force fighter pilot, Hoylwan, Oklahoma; Riley O'Sullivan, Associated Press war correspondent interviewing Captain Carney after successful escape from Japanese-occupied Burma. Carney is holding a pistol given him by the Chinese

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Chinese laborers working to reopen the Burma Road in southwest China, 1944]

No. SC 198916-S. Date stamped on verso: Jan 31 1945. ACME Newspictures, Inc. of official Signal Corps photo. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A treacherous section of the Burma road

Image source: U.S. Public Health Service, after Dr. L.L. Williams. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi More
All-American news. 1945-05, no. 4

All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, a More
Bombs over Burma, gelatin silver print

Aerial view of bombs being dropped from two 20th Bomber Command Superfortresses. Photo by U.S. Army Air Force. No. 56310 A.C. Forms part of: Ira Clarence Eaker Collection.
All-American news. 1945-01, no. 2

All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, a More
Burma (Myanma). Historic map, Library of Congress

"Base 801746 (B01313) 6-91." Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Burma (Myanma). Historic map, Library of Congress

"Base 801745 (B01313) 6-91." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Burma. Historic map, Library of Congress

Includes notes. "Base 802499 (B01313) 8-96." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Burma. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by shading. Includes notes. "Base 802500 (B01313) 8-96." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Burma. Historic map, Library of Congress

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes note. "Base 803218AI (G00261) 1-07."
Burma. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes note. "Base 803219AI (G00261) 1-07."

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