Grose Collection: Views in the Shan States. Photographer(s): Grose, Frank Samuel.

Brown cloth post-bound 'Luxor' photograph album measuring 265 x 300 mm, with title 'Photographs' stamped in gold on front cover. Prints are mounted three or four to a page, with reference code identifying negative number. This reference code consists of a letter of the alphabet for each volume of negatives, and a number for each negative within the volumes. Captions for each photograph can be found both with the list in each negative album, and in two notebooks which duplicate this information. The collection also contained the original nitrate negatives: these have been duplicated onto safety film and the originals destroyed. The original arrangement of twenty books of negatives (coded A-T) has been broken up into a more convenient system which follows and corresponds with the new numbering of the albums themselves: thus the negative number for Photo 19/1 (50) is now ON 19/1 (50) (where ON = Original Negative). A broad and very selective breakdown of the contents includes the following subjects: Saw group (print 1); Hwe pawp village (print 2); view at Hwe pawp (prints 3–4); bullock carts crossing river on raft, Kunhing (print 5); Yangseik groups (prints 6–10); Loi-sang (Mong Nai district), pagoda under repair (print 11); Hpaung daw-u festival, Yaunghwe (prints 13–23); Mon Pai Pagoda (print 25); Gaungto group (print 26); Padaung woman (print 27); camp at Loi sang (print 29); Padaung children (prints 30–31); Shan festival, Taunggyi (prints 33–35); bullock carts, March 1925 (print 36); Wan Hai Tank, Mong Nawng (print 37); car crossing floating bridge, Nam Pang, Mong Hsu (prints 38–39, 41); pagodas, Mong Hsu (print 40); Nam Pang Falls (prints 42–43); Mr and Mrs H. H. Batten (print 45); Burma Mines and Smelting Co., Namtu (print 46); Panghai (print 47); reception at (?)Ibenwi,16 May 1925 (prints 48–51); Kawngkala (Zawli) shin-pyu pwe (novitiate procession) (prints 56-9);Bhamo Ghat (prints 64-5); Maru girls (print 68); elephants loaded with baggage (prints 69–70); snow scene on Pass Road, Hsipaw district (prints 80–81); Lashi women, Lagwi (print 94); Kachin women (print 97); jade fields at Kademaw, Tawnmaw, Mawkalon, and jade caravan at Namting (prints 100–111).

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