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101. Photo 920/1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(21)
Title:
The market place, Kashgar, from the mouth of one of the covered streets which lead to it. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of market. With French translation of caption pencilled on the reverse. [Gelatin silver print, 296x224mm]. Subjects = markets; Skrine Collection; street scenes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 item

102. Photo 920/1(111)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(111)
Title:
This is not a scene on the moon, but an overprinted 'Velox' telephoto of a glacier and the peaks at its head in the mountains which divide the Kaying from Chingan Valley. July '23. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography [Gelatin silver print, 128x78mm]. Subjects = glaciers; landscape features; mountain scenery; Skrine Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1923
Extent:
1 item

103. Photo 920/1(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(33)
Title:
In the Yangi Art valley of the S.E. Tien Shan north of Uch Turfan; about 9,500 ft. Ibex grounds in background where I lost an easy chance at a good head owing to my rifle-oil freezing and causing a misfire. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking up river gorge towards peaks. With French translation of caption on reverse of print. [Gelatin silver print, 192x306mm]. Subjects = mountain scenery; Skrine Collection Location = China; Tien Shan; Xinjiang; Yangi Art Valley
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 item

104. Photo 920/1(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(24)
Title:
King's Birthday Garden Party, 1924 [at Chini Bagh, Kashgar]; Mussulman guests in shamiana specially erected for the purpose in the rose garden. In front kneels the Imam, leading the prayer; he is the highest religious luminary of Kashgar. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View from an upper of Chini Bagh, the Consulate-General, looking down onto the garden towards the group at prayer beneath an awning. Reproduced in Clarmont Skrine, 'Chinese Central Asia' (London, 1926, facing p. 262). For another photograph taken at this event, see prin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1924
Extent:
1 item

105. Photo 920/1(57)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(57)
Title:
At the highest point reached, Kayingning glen (13,000 ft.). In the middle distance is the moraine of an ancient glacier of vast size. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards glaciers and mountains, with Doris Skrine riding on a yak in the foreground. Reproduced in Clarmont Skrine, 'Chinese Central Asia' (London, 1926, facing p. 100). [Gelatin silver print, 222x295mm]. Subjects = animals; glaciers; landscape featu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922
Extent:
1 item

106. Photo 920/1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(8)
Title:
D.F.S. [Doris Forbes Skrine] entertaining Kirghiz ladies. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Doris Skrine handing out food to a group of Kirghiz women seated on the ground round blankets laid out with various foodstuffs. Signed 'S.P.S. July '23' on print. [Sepia toned gelatin silver print, mounted on card, 286x207mm]. Subjects = dress; ethnic group...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1923
Extent:
1 item

107. Photo 920/1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(7)
Title:
D.F.S. [Doris Forbes Skrine] dispensing medicine to the Kirghiz of the Chopkana Jilgha, Alps of Qungur. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of Kirghiz men and women gathered around Doris Skrine, who kneels in front of a medicine chest. The caption note continues: 'Note elaborate head-dresses of the ladies, which are peculiar to these valleys. They contain 30-40 yards of muslin and quantities ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922
Extent:
1 item

108. Photo 920/1(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(50)
Title:
Crossing the Yangi Davan, 16,100 ft (Chinese Pamirs), July 1922. My wife riding a yak heads the caravan; kit follows on yaks and ponies. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down from the head of the pass onto the party c;imbing up. Reproduced in Clarmont Skrine, 'Chinese Central Asia' (London, 1926, facing p. 46). [Gelatin silver print, 289x219mm]. Subjects = mountain scenery; Skrine Collection Location = China; Xinji...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1922
Extent:
1 item

109. Photo 920/1(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(52)
Title:
Riding into Khotan at the head of the British subjects (Doris riding camel). Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Skrine's party riding along the road into Khotan. [Gelatin silver print, 289x218mm]. Subjects = roads and highways; Skrine Collection Location = China; Khotan; Xinjiang
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1922
Extent:
1 item

110. Photo 920/1(75)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(75)
Title:
A Chinese General in full array; Gen. Ma, Titai (G.O.C.) Southern Chinese Turkestan. Publicly executed on 3rd June '24. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of General Ma in military uniform. The career and demise of General Ma, 'our local ogre', is described in Clarmont Skrine, 'Chinese Central Asia' (London, 1926, pp. 261-269). For a view of his palace at Kashgar, see print 25. [Gelatin s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 item