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June 1885
First close-up photo of Shwedagon Pagoda
people Linnaeus Tripe
Almost certainly the first ever close-up photograph of the Shwedagon pagoda. The photograph was taken in June 1855 by Linnaeus Tripe of Devon, UK, who accompanied Sir Arthur Phayre's Misson to the Court of Ava.
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