Former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the current capital of Yangon Region

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Rangoon, Burma: prisoners working a treadmill in jail. Photograph by Watts & Skeen, 189-.

Dagon Pagoda, near Rangoon, Burma. Coloured aquatint by William Daniell after James Kershaw, c. 1831.

Prisoners in Rangoon working a treadmill. Process print after Watts & Skeen.

Rangoon Leper Colony, Burma: six boys suffering from leprosy; some wearing bandages. Photograph by Merl La Voy.

Annual report of the Harcourt Butler Institute of Public Health, Rangoon.

Annual report of the Port Health Officer, Rangoon.

Annual report of the Health Officer for the City of Rangoon.

Report on the public health administration of the city of Rangoon.

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Images referencing Yangon

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Report on the public health administration of the city of Rangoon.

Yangon

Images from the collections

Images referencing Yangon

Works from the collections

Report on the public health administration of the city of Rangoon.

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