Amerapoora: Wooden Bridge September 1–October 21, 1855 Linnaeus Tripe British With a surveyor’s eye, Tripe took this dramatic view looking across the three-quarter-mile bridge that led to the British residency on the other side of the lagoon. To highlight the scale of the massive teak pillars in the foreground, he included two figures seated in the shade of a tree and a small rest house at right. Many of the buildings in Amerapoora that Tripe photographed were dismantled after 1859, when the capital moved to Mandalay, but this bridge, which Tripe’s colleague Henry Yule called "apparently inter
Amerapoora: Wooden Bridge September 1–October 21, 1855 Linnaeus Tripe British With a surveyor’s eye, Tripe took this dramatic view looking across the three-quarter-mile bridge that led to the British residency on the other side of the lagoon. To highlight the scale of the massive teak pillars in the foreground, he included two figures seated in the shade of a tree and a small rest house at right. Many of the buildings in Amerapoora that Tripe photographed were dismantled after 1859, when the capital moved to Mandalay, but this bridge, which Tripe’s colleague Henry Yule called "apparently interminable," survives Amerapoora: Wooden Bridge 302645
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