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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

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.

Interior of a Burmese house, weaving

Interior of a Burmese house, weaving

Photograph shows the interior of a Burmese house set up for weaving; a group portrait of a woman sitting at a loom, a woman standing in front of the loom, and a man and a young girl standing to the left of the ... More

Prison guard - Frank G. Carpenter collection

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

American soldiers in India have taught these Burmese nurses to play softball and they report the girls make good competition despite the long wrap-around skirts which interfere somewhat with their base running

American soldiers in India have taught these Burmese nurses to play so...

Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Burmese women rolling leaf tobacco into cigars, Mopoon, Burma

Burmese women rolling leaf tobacco into cigars, Mopoon, Burma

Four Burmese women seated on blankets rolling cigars on benches. H91041 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 14529. Copyright by H.C. White Co.

Burmese women, one smoking a cigar

Burmese women, one smoking a cigar

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, 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

There was no military objective in this happy Burmese village. The obj...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Rangoon prisoners - Frank G. Carpenter collection

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

Illustrated sign on railway coach - "Pongyis and Burmese men only"

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).