Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Sub-fonds

Conybeare Collection: Photograph album, mainly relating to the teak industry in Burma....

Catalogue reference: Photo 1135

What’s it about?

This record is about the Conybeare Collection: Photograph album, mainly relating to the teak industry in Burma.... dating from c 1890s-1900s.

Access information is unavailable

Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.

Full description and record details

Reference
Photo 1135
Title
Conybeare Collection: Photograph album, mainly relating to the teak industry in Burma. Photographer(s): Conybeare, Charles Bruce.
Date
c 1890s-1900s
Description

Brown, soft-covered photograph album measuring 195 x 280 mm, containing 69 (+ 4 loose) prints, hinge-mounted at corners, with contemporary handwritten captions. The photograph record the life in Burma of Charles Bruce Conybeare (1873-1940), an employee of the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation from around the mid-1890s to c. 1903. Many of the photographs relate to Conybeare's work in the teak industry in the Mu Forest area of Upper Burma, with views of timber being felled and transported. There are also general scenes of Burmese life and views and portraits of Conybeare and European colleagues. Conybeare was invalided out of Burma in the early 1900s and thereafter farmed in Kenya until 1921, when he returned to England.

Held by
British Library: Asian and African Studies
Language
Not applicable
Physical description
73 items
Access conditions

Unrestricted. Appointment Required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff.

Immediate source of acquisition
Gift, 2003: Presented by Mrs Arminel Buckingham, daughter of C.B. Conybeare, November 2003.
Physical condition
Dimensions: 95 mm x 120 mm.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/f86fa156-a64b-4af4-b586-e30a0d3e53cf/

Catalogue hierarchy

963,091 records
146,212 records

Within the fonds: Photo

British Library Photo Collection

You are currently looking at the sub-fonds: Photo 1135

Conybeare Collection: Photograph album, mainly relating to the teak industry in Burma. Photographer(s): Conybeare, Charles Bruce.