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Language Not applicable Place Lhasa, Tibet, Xizang, China, Asia Level [40] File

1. Photo 1043(284)

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Photo 1043(284)
Title:
Khamba beggars [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of five men, carrying spears, encountered while Chapman and Nepean were riding out to photograph the procession celebrating the return of the Regent to Lhasa. 'Here are a party of swarthy nomads from Kha, or the Hor states visiting the Holy City for the f...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
23 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1043(299)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1043(299)
Title:
Mummers [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Full-length standing portrait of a group of five masked dancers. 'Some Mummers came and danced for our entertainment. These are local and rather amateurish performers as opposed to the more accomplished Khamba dancers and acrobats who tour the country professionally.' (Lhasa Mission Diary, 1 Dec...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1 Dec 1936
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1083/60

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1083/60
Title:
Bailey Collection: Miscellaneous Tibetan Portraits. Photographer: Frederick Marshman Bailey
Scope & Content:
Collection of 46 loose prints, mainly of Tibetan subjects, including a portrait of the 13th Dalai Lama taken by Bailey in 1924. The collection also includes 29 prints, originally housed in a wallet labelled Shetland ponies in Lhasa, showing carriages drawn by small ponies.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s-1924
Extent:

46 items

4. Photo 1084, 2(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(22)
Title:
Tha Lha-la House [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from an upper storey, looking across the inner courtyard towards the entrance (over which the Union flag is flying): 'This is the house where the Mission resided at Lhasa. It is a fine large building, surrounding four sides of a big courtyard. After the Mis...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1084, 2(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(23)
Title:
The entrance to Lhasa. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking past a chorten or stupa through which the road passes, towards the Potala Palace rising beyond: 'Through this Chorten, Colonel Younghusband and escort marched on the 4th August, 1904, when European troops for the first time in history entered ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1084, 2(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(24)
Title:
The Chorten, looking backward, or to the west from the foot of the Po-ta-la [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the road towards the chorten or stupa, also seen in print 23, with a group of monks standing in the roadway in the foreground. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (64).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1084, 2(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(25)
Title:
The so-called Turquoise Bridge [Yutok, Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of a covered section of the stone bridge: 'A very ordinary structure roofed with greenish Chinese tiles.' Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (65).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1084, 2(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(26)
Title:
A street scene in Lhasa. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Group portrait of a large gathering of Tibetans, posed in the street in front of the Jokang: 'The view was taken outside the doors of the Jowo Khang or Cathedral. The man in the foreground is a lay official, and the men in flat round hats are members of the Lhas...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1084, 2(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(27)
Title:
A 'Do-ring,' or monument, outside the Jowo Khang [Jokang, Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a carved stone stelae, set within an arched brick niche. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (67).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1084, 2(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(28)
Title:
The Lukhang [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography 'A beautiful grove at the foot of the Po-ta-la [partially visible in the background] with a small lake in the middle. The grove or garden belongs to the Dalai Lama.' With a figure posed beside a chorten or stupa in the roadway in the foreground. Another copy (printe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item