Details
Creator Mowry, E.L., photographer.
Title [Full-length portrait of Maung Shaw Loo] [graphic] / E.L. Mowry, Photographer, Lewisburg, Pa.
Publisher Lewisburg, Pa
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 7 x 10 cm (2.5 x 4 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Full-length, forward-facing portrait of Maung Shaw Loo, attired in traditional Burmese clothes, including a gaung baung (head wrap); a light-colored shirt; a striped longyi (sarong or long skirt); and a floor-length, striped cloth cape around his shoulders. He stands with his right hand on the back of a wooden chair. A curtain hangs in the right, and a patterned carpet is visible on the floor. Maung Shaw Loo (1839-1929) was born in Burma (Myanmar) and traveled to the United States in 1858. He attended the University of Lewisburg (later renamed Bucknell University) in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1864. He earned a medical degree from Cleveland Medical College in 1867, becoming the first Western-trained Burmese physician. He returned to Burma and continued work as a physician and educator.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from sitter's time in Lewisburg, Pa.
Photographer's imprint on verso: E.L. Mowry, Photographer, Lewisburg, Pa.
Subject Loo, Maung Shaw, 1839-1929 -- Portraits.
Asians -- Portraits.
Burmese -- Clothing & dress.
Burmese -- Portraits.
Men -- Burmese.
Students -- Pennsylvania -- Lewisburg.
AAPI.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Cartes de visite -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Loo [P.2024.2]
Accession number P.2024.2