Burma
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Burma
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) Polytechnic - photographs, 1945-1951
File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/D/5
Scope and Contents
2 black and white photographic prints (17.5cm x 22cm), with accompanying captions, of work from the Service Arts Technical Organization (SATO) Polytechnic. The first shows Percy Johnson-Marshall addressing a meeting of future instructors of the Polytechnic, the second shows Major General Woods and William Tatton Brown at an art exhibition. The photographs are accompanied by a letter from FE Shrosbree, the General Secretary of the Association of Building Technicians, who sent them to Percy...
Dates:
1945-1951
Shan manuscript displaying cosmology symbols and talisman tattoo designs, early 20th century
Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848-20-0024
Scope and Contents
This folding paper manuscript (also known as parabaik) was created in Burma by the Shan people in the early 20th century. It is painted on mulberry bark paper using silvered ink, and displays cosmology symbols and talismans that were used by monks or a master Sala as a reference for tattoo designs and auspicious dates.The art of tattoo in South East Asia, especially in Burma, encompasses ritual as well as decoration. Acquiring tattoos at the Buddhist Temple would ensure the owner...
Dates:
early 20th century
Shipping an Elephant, Rangoon, [Burma], 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3415
Scope and Contents
Photograph of an elephant being lifted with ropes and pulleys onto a ship in Rangoon, [Burma] in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
South Burma Toungoo Group: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1945
File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/B/22
Scope and Contents
Administration, correspondence and reports for the Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) Toungoo Group. Includes some details about the employment of civilian labour in the area.
Dates:
1945
Spare broadsheets: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1943-1945
File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/A/9
Scope and Contents
Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) monthly newsletters for April, July and September 1945, including a number from October 1945 returned as address unknown with a list of these. There is also a copy of the Service Arts Organisation (SAO) Information notes No 1, August 1943. Report of joint meeting of SATO and TOCH at the Burma front held on 23 July 1945. There is also a copy of a job advert for an architect forwarded to Percy Johnson-Marshall in August 1945, as suitable for his...
Dates:
1943-1945
The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: PJM
Scope and Contents
The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection consists of papers, plans, books, journals and photographs collected or created by him throughout the course of his career. These reflect both his employment situation, his involvement in professional organisations and educational bodies, his involvement in World Development issues and his general interest in architecture and planning. The collection contains material relating to:
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Dates:
1931-1993