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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Military Posts

21. Photo 430/53(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(25)
Title:
Gurkha Post [Gyantse]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the square single storey building, much marked by shells. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (24), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'This was an outpost to the house in which the Mission and escort lived, and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Jul 1904
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 430/53(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(26)
Title:
Mission Post [Gyantse]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Another view of the military post at Gyantse (see also print 25), with tents and a military guard in the foreground. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (25), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'This is where the Mission sustai...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Jul 1904
Extent:
1 item

23. Photo 1084, 1(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 1(24)
Title:
The Goorkha Post [Gyantse]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of the square single storey building, much marked by shells: 'This was an outpost to the house in which the Mission and escort lived, and was held by the 8th Goorkhas. It was very near the Jong for the Tibetans, as will be seen by the numerous holes in ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 1084, 1(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 1(25)
Title:
The Mission Post at Gyang-tse. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of tents in front of the wall of the mission, with an Indian soldier on sentry duty: 'This is where the Mission sustained what may almost be called a state of seige for several months. They were under constant fire from the Jong, and on the occasion of the firs...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1903-1904
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 1146(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1146(18)
Title:
Tibetan Frontier Guard. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait view of the Tibetan Frontier Guard in front of his camp/guard house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 1173

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1173
Title:
North-West Frontier photographs of Colonel John Harold George Chapman. Photographers: Mela Ram and Sons (Peshawar), and others
Scope & Content:
113 prints originally mounted on album pages with self-adhesive caption labels (now removed and rehoused for conservation reasons); 4 negatives (one original, three copy negatives); one modern copy print. The photographs and sticky captions originally attached to them have been removed from the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1929-1931
Extent:

120 photographs