Burmese women only are allowed to hunt for rubies that may escape from...
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.
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).
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.
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
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).
The elephant at work transporting heavy teakwood logs in a lumber yard...
No. 14558. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...
Public domain photograph related to Chinese history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Image of "Harpist," signifying "propitiating evil spirits with music,"...
Large figure of Oriental man with harp-like object being carried. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
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.
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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).
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
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
Men walking on street. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Identified as Burma in 1991; formerly thought to be Thailand. Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of... More
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 collect...
Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
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
There was no military objective in this happy Burmese village. The obj...
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
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
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).
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma 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
Big Tree, Rangoon - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
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 containin...
Photograph shows a bird's-eye view of the "Charity" or Sandamuni Pagoda surrounded by smaller pagodas in Mandalay, Burma.
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).
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 collec...
Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Beautiful gilded and carved teakwood shrines before the Shwe Dagon Pag...
No. 14509. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The colossal reclining Gaudama Buddha, 200 ft. long, 50 ft. across sho...
Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...
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 high...
Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fighter pilot interviewed after escape. Left to right: Jack Jarrel, IN...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The big bell of Burma, second largest in the world (weight 80 tons,) M...
H91654 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 14542. Public domain photograph of Egypt, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mandalay - tower of palace. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a castle, view, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
China's welcome to T. R. H.--archway built of material brought from Ca...
No. 8781. Public domain image of 19th century China, historical photograph, 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
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...
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 High...
Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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).
Men walking on street. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Identified as Burma in 1991; formerly thought to be Thailand. Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of... More
Mandalay people watch a splendid funeral procession of Buddhist Archbi...
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...
No. (9)-9017. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, 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
Fantastic and costly chariots shaped liked pagodas and elphants--funer...
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 ido...
Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dickering and bargaining on every side--in the market at Mandalay, Bur...
No. 14535. Public domain photograph of people at the picnic, in the park, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
King Mindon's old fort at Mandalay from the airy shelf at "Sensation C...
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 yard...
No. 14512. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...
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 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
East Bazaar road, with porters going on errands and children at play, ...
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, ...
No. 14537. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Crowds on a religious holiday, around Buddhist funderal cars gay with ...
Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(21)-9031 Fight between best of 50 couples (champion at left)--funeral...
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 Hou...
No. 8780. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...
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
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
Splendid, honors to a dead Buddhist--elevating coffin in car to a gild...
Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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).
Superbly gilded and scupltured funeral chariots ready for Buddhist pro...
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 i...
Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Entrance to the Arrakan Pagoda, one of the most splendid Buddhist temp...
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, B...
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, R...
No. (8)-9018. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Man's faithful servant--an elephant carrying block of teakwood in the ...
No. 12557. 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, funer...
Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
T. R. H. advancing to dais to open Victoria Memorial Park, Rangoon, Bu...
No. 8776. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pinnacled heights of Pagoda hill, crowned with innumerable shrines, Mo...
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 ...
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, Burm...
No. 14532. 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 Buddist funeral cars gay with gi...
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 Buddhis...
Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, 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...
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, Mand...
No. (18)-9080 Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, 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
Veterans of the Medium Bomber Squadron 14th Airforce who blasted Tokyo...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
One of the 12 ornamental gates in the walls of Fort Dufferin, Mandalay...
No. 14538. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
An elephant putting a huge log of teakwood into place, lumber yard, Ra...
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 S...
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...
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
Bewildering Splendor of street parade in honor of dead Buddhist Archbi...
Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...
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
Marvelous elaboration of a Buddhist shrine built by a rich citizen of ...
No. (7)-9021. 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 R...
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 ...
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 ro...
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 Pagod...
No. (7)-9019. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...
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