Up the River Sootlej, Himala. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Numbered '181' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a gorge in the Sutlej River, with snow-capped peaks in the distance..
Up the River Sootlej, Himala [View from Rogi]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Numbered '206' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the mountainside above the valley of the Sutlej, towards the Tibet road at Rogi, with mountains beyond.
Inscription: Captioned and numbered '11' in pencil on back of print. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down onto small wooden footbridge across a stream. Location unidentified (possibly near Simla?).
Deodars, 35 and 37 feet in circumference. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Photograph of Deodar trees in Himachal Pradesh, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1863. Deodar trees are native to the Himalayas and can grow to 200 feet in height. The name is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘devadara’ meaning tree of the gods; the wood was traditionally used to construct temples.
Glaciers from the Wanga Valley. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Photograph of glaciers from the Wanga Valley, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1863. By the 1860s. This view was taken during Bourne's First Himalayan Expedition, July 29-Oct 12, 1863.