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1. 1783.cc.11(92)

Reference (shelfmark):
1783.cc.11(92)
Title:
Une lepreuse de Samarkand demandant l'aumone. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 92. Full-length portrait of a woman suffering from leprosy, begging for alms in Samarkand.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1898-1899
Extent:
1 item

2. 1787.d.7, 2(53)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 2(53)
Title:
The chief of the thieves. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of four beggars: 'In Foochow the city is divided into wards, and within the limits of each ward a head man is appointed, who can count his descent from a line of illustrious beggars, and in him rests the right, which would seem to be, to keep...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

3. 1787.d.7, 2(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 2(54)
Title:
Beggars living in a tomb. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a group of beggars, posed around a doorway: 'The worst class of beggars are the outlaws, who recognize no chief, and who live in holes and hovels about the burial grounds. I made the acquaintance of some of this class, and I have given a p...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

4. 10076.i.2, 1(19b)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(19b)
Title:
Beggars [Cyprus]. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a beggar woman with her two children, the youngest held in her arms: 'The woman shown in the present picture was evidently no professional beggar. She simply presented herself at the doorway of the house where I happened to be lodging; there she waited si...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

5. Add Or 2529

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2529
Title:
Crippled beggar and wife.
Scope & Content:
Crippled beggar and wife. The beggar, his leg amputated at the knee, pours rice from a gourd into a dish held by his wife. Inscribed on back: ‘No.27. Beggars.’ Note: This picture, as already noted, closely resembles plate 39 in Charles Gold, ‘Oriental Drawings’ (London, 1806). There are a nu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3305

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3305
Title:
Bhutiya beggars from Lhasa; the woman holding a bowl.
Scope & Content:
Tibetan beggars from Lhasa; the woman holding a bowl. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Bhootiya Beggars from Llassa.’ 268 by 225 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 5340, f.6

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5340, f.6
Title:
A beggar-girl with a drone. From an album of Dhurandhar's water-colours.. Artist(s): Dhurandhar, Mahadev Visvanath (1867-1944)
Scope & Content:
A beggar-girl with a drone. Inscribed below: ‘Beggar.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1899
Extent:
1 Item

8. Photo 1148(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1148(13)
Title:
Pilgrim beggars beating their gongs — near Lake Kawaguchi, Japan. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1148(61)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1148(61)
Title:
Coming and going under long rows of sacred torri, Shinto temple of Inari, Kyoto, Japan. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1188(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1188(30)
Title:
'King of the Beggars' the chief of a beggar guild—vain of his excessive raggedness, Loon Wah, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item