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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 63079-63141 Language Not applicable Subject Mining

1. Add MS 63135(40)

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Title:
Thok Dalung, miners' tents. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of the miners' encampment, with mountains beyond. Calvert stayed several days inspecting the gold-digging activities at Dalung, which he considered 'one of the most interesting places I have seen in Tibet' (f. 108). On 30 August he notes: 'Took some mor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 63135(41)

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Title:
Thok Dalung, miners' tents. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Closer view of a line of tents.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 63135(42)

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Title:
Hauling up the earth from the mines. Note the size of the mine mouth [Thok Dalung]. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Showing a miner hauling on a rope let down into a small hole in the ground, with another miner and a child watching.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 63135(43)

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Title:
Women workers, Thok Dalung. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:
View of two women in front of miner's tent at Thok Dalung.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 63135(44)

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Title:
Beating the clods of earth with yaks' horns preparatory to washing [Thok Dalung] Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:
View looking towards a group of gold-diggers at work.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 63135(45)

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Title:
Washing for gold [Thok Dalung]. The actual washer is the middle man of these three. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:
View of miners at work, digging near the river. With a further pencilled note refering to the pile of earth on the right: 'This heap is the winter collection — when no washing is possible.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 63135(46)

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Title:
Old lady washing for gold. She is sinking her bowl in the water [Thok Dalung]. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:
Showing an aged Tibetan woman squatting beside a stream.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 63135(47)

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Title:
Washing for gold [Thok Dalung]. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:
View of miner at work between two channels of water (marked in pencil, 'branch channel' and 'main channel'). With an explanatory pencilled note: 'A small channel with a good drop is lined with cloth and then with stones, the earth is slowly raked into this.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:
1 item

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