Amerapoora: Wooden Bridge

Linnaeus Tripe British

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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 today.

Amerapoora: Wooden Bridge, Linnaeus Tripe (British, Devonport (Plymouth Dock) 1822–1902 Devonport), Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors, and Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2012

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Amerapoora: Wooden Bridge, Linnaeus Tripe (British, Devonport (Plymouth Dock) 1822–1902 Devonport), Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors, and Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2012
Amerapoora: Wooden Bridge, Linnaeus Tripe (British, Devonport (Plymouth Dock) 1822–1902 Devonport), Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors, and Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2012
Amerapoora: Wooden Bridge, Linnaeus Tripe (British, Devonport (Plymouth Dock) 1822–1902 Devonport), Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors, and Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2012

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