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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3
Title:: Landscape and Temples
Scope & Content:: Landscape and Temples: The landscape and temples are from Kathmandu Valley and the surrounding cities.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Late 1800s
Extent:: 660 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/279
Title:
Scope & Content:: Annapurna Temple in Asan. The three-storey temple is dedicated to the goddess of abundance; Annapurna and is represented by a purana (bowl) full of grain.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950s-1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/651
Title:
Scope & Content:: The iconic Kasthamandap, from which Kathmandu derives its name, was built in the twelfth century and was the oldest structure in Kathmandu. It was a public pavilion, a rest house, which sat along the two ancient trans-Himalayan trade routes- India and China. This sattal, half shelter and half te...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/657
Title:
Scope & Content:: Reconstruction of Kasthamandap, from which Kathmandu derives its name, was built in the twelfth century and was the oldest structure in Kathmandu. It was a public pavilion, a rest house, which sat along the two ancient trans-Himalayan trade routes- India and China. This sattal, half shelter and ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/5
Title:: Portraits
Scope & Content:: Nepal opened up to the outside only in 1950s. Cameras were only allowed to the Ranas and a few elites. The portraits taken before the 50s are interesting as they give a glimpse into a common man's life that are not documented otherwise.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Late 1800s
Extent:: 447 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP848/1
Title:: The collection preserved at Grishashvili Library Museum
Scope & Content:: The collection contains the following: private archive of Ioseb Grishashvili, rare and unique bibliographic editions, urban folklore, playbills, handwritten books, newspapers etc. The collections are displayed in showrooms and stored in repositories. The Georgian writer and scientist – Ioseb Gr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Abkhazian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Not applicable, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian
Date Range:: 1712-1999
Extent:: 21540 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1104/11
Title:: Private Collection of Royal family of Cussimbazar (Roy)
Scope & Content:: Custodial history: Around 1700 AD Ajodhya Ram Roy of Pirojpur village near Bhagabangola and the river Padma (who traced his descent from Patrasayer of Burdwan District) came with his family to settle down in Cossimbazar, a renowned port city of Bengal closed to Murshidabad, the capital of the Na...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, English, and Not applicable
Date Range:: 1st half of the 19th century-1st half of the 20th century
Extent:: 2818 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7
Title:: Photographic Plates
Scope & Content:: 255 photographic glass plate negatives (gelatin dry plates), stored in 23 original plate boxes, haphazardly arranged. All appear to be original plates, mostly exposed in the early 1930s. About half (127) show buildings, telescopes, instruments and people at Boyden Observatory, South Africa, most...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 255

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