1929 Photogravure Queen's Golden Monastery Shwenandaw Kyaung Mandalay Myanmar

This is an original 1929 photogravure of the Queen's Golden Monastery (Shwenandaw Kyaung) in Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar). A monk and two children stand outside the building. The monastery was built on orders from Queen Supayalat in 1885. The photographer of this image is Dr. Martin Hürlimann of Berlin, Germany. His photographs were largely composed of cities and civilizations, and taken mostly with a Sinclair camera. Period Paper is pleased to offer an exceptional collection of historic original photogravures of the landscape, architecture, and people of Ceylon and Indochina including the present-day countries of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos, and Yunnan, a Province of southwestern China. The actual border around the photogravure is larger than what is shown in the digital image, and each image usually has a caption in German, English, French, and Italian which will be included with the item when shipped. However, we wanted to show you the actual image up close and th