The Do-rings at Gyantse. Servants standing behind. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Seated portrait of Do-ring Ku-sho and his wife, with servants standing behind. The Do-ring family had for generations served as civil administartors to the Tibetan government, but the figure seen here had been dismissed and exiled from Lhasa for alleged complicity in...
Rhaden Saleh. Peintre de S. M. le Roi des Bays-Bas. Photographer: Woodbury and Page.
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Full-length seated portrait of Raden Saleh Sarif Bustaman (1807-1880), Javanese painter in the western style, dressed in an elaborate uniform. For another portrait of Raden Saleh, similarly clothed and probably taken on the same occasion, see Photo 1183 (10).
Iapanischer Briefträger in der Sommer-Litewka. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length standing studio portrait of a Japanese postman, lightly dressed in a loincloth and carrying a letter attached to a stick.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length standing studio portrait of a Japanese man, wearing a loincloth and seen from the rear to show tattooing.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated studio portrait of a Japanese man, wearing a loincloth and seen from the rear to show tattooing, holding a saki bottle.