| 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 |
