Linnaeus Tripe's photographs: Notes toward an index

Abstract

Abstract Linnaeus Tripe, a career army officer with the 12th Madras Native Infantry, was, in June 1855, ‘placed temporarily at the disposal of the Supreme Govt. for employment with the mission about to proceed to Ava’1. From that date until March 1860, he was employed first as Official Photographer to the Ava (Burma) Mission, and then as Government Photographer to the Madras Presidency, producing photographs which are coming to be increasingly well-known and well-regarded. Almost 800 of his images are now in private and public collections.