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Sule Pagoda in the 1890s
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1890s

Sule Pagoda in the 1890s

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This is a a photograph of the Sule Pagoda taken by the German photograph Philip Kliers in the 1890s. The photograph is taken from Barr Street, the old town hall is to the right and the Shwedagon Pagoda in the distance. The cast-iron bandstand in the middle of the park (then "Fytche Park") was a gift of a local Jewish businessman Mordecai Isaac Cohen.

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