Including 'The Chief Commissioner's House, Mandalay with Sir Charles Crosswaite and Suite in the Garden', the Fort at Bhamo, the east wall of the city of Mandalay, views of the Palace and of Mandalay from the hill, King Theebaw's Reception Rooms, the '480 Pagodas', 'The Serpent Pagoda', 'The Floating Pagoda', a Burmese funeral, an "upper-class" Burmese family, 'Mother and Son - specimen of Burmese tattooing', a group of Kachins, Shan merchants and Burmese girls grooming their hair.
Beato arrived in Burma soon after the fall of Mandalay in 1885 having previously been in Japan. He set up his studio and curio shop in the city and offered passing travellers a photographic catalogue listing the images available either as prints or post cards. At the turn of the century the Indian-owned post card company Ahuja of Rangoon began buying the rights to many of the more popular photographs of Burma including those from the studio of Beato soon after his death in 1906.