Working elephants in timber yards, Yangon, Myanmar, album cover, photograph, Three working elephants in a carpentry workshop, Rangoon, union of Myanmar (formerly Burma)., inscription: 'Elephants', caption: 'Elephants working in Timber-yards - Rangoon.', c. 1870 - c. 1900, photographer, pasteboard, paper, albumen print, albumendruk, height 212 mm x width 255 mm, height 400 mm x width 278 mm, Three elephants standing on muddy ground with large wooden beams in the foreground, each elephant bearing a man seated on its back with simple cloth wraps and head coverings, the two elephants nearer the camera showing visible tusks and chains around their legs, one man holding a stick while seated on the first elephant and another man sitting cross-legged on the middle elephant, a third elephant farther back also carrying a seated man and carrying a wooden object in its trunk, a low shoreline and calm water visible in the background with a small thatched structure near the right edge of the image a...
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Working elephants in timber yards, Yangon, Myanmar, album cover, photograph, Three working elephants in a carpentry workshop, Rangoon, union of Myanmar (formerly Burma)., inscription: 'Elephants', caption: 'Elephants working in Timber-yards - Rangoon.', c. 1870 - c. 1900, photographer, pasteboard, paper, albumen print, albumendruk, height 212 mm x width 255 mm, height 400 mm x width 278 mm, Three elephants standing on muddy ground with large wooden beams in the foreground, each elephant bearing a man seated on its back with simple cloth wraps and head coverings, the two elephants nearer the camera showing visible tusks and chains around their legs, one man holding a stick while seated on the first elephant and another man sitting cross-legged on the middle elephant, a third elephant farther back also carrying a seated man and carrying a wooden object in its trunk, a low shoreline and calm water visible in the background with a small thatched structure near the right edge of the image and scattered logs and debris on the ground.

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Working elephants timber yards Yangon Myanmar album cover photograph Three working elephants carpentry workshop Rangoon union formerly Burma inscription Elephants caption Elephants working Timber-yards - Rangoon c 1870 - c 1900 photographer pasteboard paper albumen print albumendruk height 212 mm x width 255 mm height 400 mm x 278 mm Three elephants standing muddy ground large wooden beams foreground elephant bearing man seated back simple cloth wraps head coverings two elephants nearer camera showing visible tusks chains legs man holding stick seated first elephant another man sitting cross-legged middle elephant third elephant farther back also carrying seated man carrying wooden object trunk low shoreline calm water visible background small thatched structure near right edge image scattered logs debris ground

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