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Language Not applicable Name Spencer-Chapman, Frederick, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1907-1971

211. Photo 1043(212)

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Photo 1043(212)
Title:
Regent's tents in front of Potala. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the southern face of the Potala, with the Regent's encampment in the foreground. The Regent was about to depart for Samye monastery. [Gelatin silver print, 150x102mm]. Subjects = camps; tents; Tibetan architecture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
6 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 item

212. Photo 1043(213)

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Photo 1043(213)
Title:
Western gate of Lhasa. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography Line of horsemen (presumably the Regent and entourage departing for Samye) passing through the Pargo Kaling Gateway. The gate, in the form of a chorten or stupa, stands to south-west of the Potala. [Gelatin silver print, 105x152mm]. Subjects = chortens (stupa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
6 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 item

213. Photo 1043(214)

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Photo 1043(214)
Title:
[Yaks on the road west of Lhasa, with the Potala in the background.] Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Landscape Photography [Gelatin silver print, 152x104mm]. Subjects = animals; pack animals; yaks Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
6 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 item

214. Photo 1043(215)

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Photo 1043(215)
Title:
Three Tibetan officials in ceremonial dress [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of the three officials, taken on the day of the Regent's departure for Samye. 'All other officials of Lhasa were waiting to receive him at the park. Today they wore a ceremonial dress reserved for auspicious occasions. Those of the highe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
6 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 item

215. Photo 1043(216)

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Photo 1043(216)
Title:
Regent's sedan chair [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Crowd surrounding the Regent's sedan chair on his departure from Lhasa. 'The Regent soon left his tent and was carried in his chair the short distance to the river where two hide coracles tied together and decorated with yellow cloth even to the paddles, were waiting to take him across to where ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
6 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 item

216. Photo 1043(217)

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Photo 1043(217)
Title:
Regent's boat. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
The Regent, seated in a yak-hide coracle covered in yellow cloth, about to cross the Kyi Chu outside Lhasa at the beginning of his journey to Samye monastery. See note at print 216. [Gelatin silver print, 157x103mm]. Subjects = local craft; transport; water transport Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
6 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 item

217. Photo 1043(218)

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Photo 1043(218)
Title:
[Picnic breakfast outside Lhasa after the departure of the Regent for Samye.] Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Group seated on ground around meal laid out on a cloth. The two Europeans are Herbert Nepean (left) and Hugh Richardson. 'When he had gone we had a picnic breakfast by the river at which Tsarong Shapé joined us.' (Lhasa Mission Diary, 6 October 1936). [Gelatin silver print, 157x102mm]. Subjec...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
6 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 item

218. Photo 1043(219)

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Photo 1043(219)
Title:
[Tibetan man with goitre, Lhasa.] Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of a Tibetan man with a large goitre. [Gelatin silver print, 106x154mm]. Subjects = diseases; health care Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
7 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 item

219. Photo 1043(220)

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Photo 1043(220)
Title:
Patients after cataract operations [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Group of eight patients, their eyes bandaged, standing in front of the makeshift hospital organised by Dr William Stanley Morgan: 'We seem to have come into more quiet times and can each return to his respective occupation...Morgan to his hospital where in a dingy Tibetan room (rather like a sta...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
7 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 item

220. Photo 1043(221)

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Photo 1043(221)
Title:
Profession 'prayer' [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Monk seated at prayer from a holy book. The title given to this photograph in a typescript list accompanying the Lhasa Mission Diary is 'A professional 'prayer reading holy books aloud outside a patient's tent' (in front of Dr Morgan's hospital). [Gelatin silver print, 156x103mm]. Subjects = ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 7 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 item