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Language Not applicable Place Lhasa, Tibet, Xizang, China, Asia Level [41] Item

1. Photo 430/53(62)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(62)
Title:
The court yard, Lhalu's house [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from an upper storey of the building, looking out across the courtyard. The Union flag flies over the entrance. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (22), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'This is the house where the Miss...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 430/53(63)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(63)
Title:
The Potola [Potala Palace] and entrance gate [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the Potala Palace, with the roadway passing through the base of a chorten or stupa in the foreground (the Pargo Kaling Gateway). Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (23), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 430/53(64)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(64)
Title:
The entrance gate [Pargo Kaling] from inside [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the road towards the inner face of the chorten or stupa known as the Pargo Kaling, also seen in print 23, with a group of monks standing in the roadway in the foreground. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (24), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutt...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 430/53(65)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(65)
Title:
Utok bridge [Yutok Bridge, Yuthok Zampa, or the Turqouise Roof Bridge, Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of a covered section of the bridge. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (25), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'The so-called Turquoise Bridge. A very ordinary structure roofed with greenish Chinese tiles'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 430/53(66)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(66)
Title:
Lhasa. Street scene looking towards Jowo Khang [Jokhang]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of a crowd of Tibetans posed in the roadway in front of the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. the Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (26), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 430/53(67)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(67)
Title:
Doring [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the stone monument, set inside a brick niche. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (27), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'A "Do-ring", or monument, outside the Jowo Khang'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 430/53(68)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(68)
Title:
Outside La Khang [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the roadway towards a portion of the Potala Palace visible on the hillside beyond, with a figure posed in front of the chorten in the foreground. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (28), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the capt...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 430/53(70)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(70)
Title:
Rock carved with Bhuddist [sic] figures [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the circumabulatory road, festooned with prayer flags and with the rock face on the right carved with Buddha images and other religious motifs. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (30), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the captio...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 430/53(71)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(71)
Title:
The Potola and Monolith [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from below looking towards the southern face of the Potala Palace, with the monolithic pillar (Potala Sho Doring) in the foreground. There are ten photographs of the Potala in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]); another copy of this plate is at...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 430/53(72)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(72)
Title:
Stairway to Potola [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This view of the steps at the base of the Potala Palace is one of a handful of prints in this album not reproduced in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item