Le, from the Palace. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
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Genre: Landscape Photography Buildings in foreground looking towards mountains, with a group of chortens (stupas) in the left background. Caption note continues: 'A bird's-eye view, showing in the distance, at the entrance of the city, clusters of small tombs and relic-houses, and the cairn or ...
Geya, a Thibetan village. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking acrossing the valley towards the houses of the village, with hills beyond. A contrasty print. Caption note continues: 'The first inhabited spot after a long continued stretch of desolate country. Even here human toil can, with difficulty, obtain a scant...
Le, the principal street. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
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Genre: Landscape Photography View along main street, lined with houses, with a backdrop of mountains. Caption note continues: 'The great feature in the City of Lé is this grand street. Although largely inhabited, the city wears an air of desertion, only dissipated by the occasional arrival of a...
General view looking towards the Palace on the ridge. Caption note continues: 'This remarkable city, of daily increasing importance to commerce, since the conquest of Ladac by Golab Singh, has been principally inhabited by Cashmerees. The large building in this view is the Palace of the deposed ...
Rukchin, a Bhoti encampment. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
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Genre: Landscape Photography View along the valley towards mountains beyond. Caption note continues: 'This dreary spot is occupied, during the less severe season, by a horde of Bhotias, - a tribe of Ladac, who live by herding cattle. Their habitation is composed of a blanket supported by sticks...
Bhimbur, the boundary of Cashmere. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across a field towards the houses of the town. Bhimbar is in the Mirpur district, on the Kashmir-Punjab boundary. Caption note continues: 'The limit of the Maharajah's territory, where the traveller turns from the regions of the romantic and the beautif...
The 2nd or Ameera Bridge, Sreenuggur. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the river towards the bridge, which is lined with houses along its length. Caption note continues: 'This quaint bridge cannot but call to recollection by-gone days, when London Bridge was also lined with somewhat similar buildings.' Subjects = b...