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101. Photo 430/53(85)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(85)
Title:
The Chinese Amban [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of the Chinese Resident at Lhasa, seated on horseback with attendants grouped round him. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (45), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c.1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

102. Photo 430/53(86)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(86)
Title:
The Nepalese representative in Lhasa. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of Captain Jit Bahadur, his wife and a young son. This is one of the 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 Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

103. Photo 487(73)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 487(73)
Title:
Major Cavagnari C.S.I. and chief sirdars with Kunar Syud [Jalalabad]. Photographer: Burke, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of Pierre Louis Cavagnari, seated in the centre of a group of Afghan tribal leaders at Jalalabad, probably in early 1879, after the occupation of Jalalabad (December 1878), but before the signing of the Treaty of Gandamak (May 1879). This photograph was repr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1879
Extent:
1 item

104. Photo 667/2(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 667/2(35)
Title:
Amban, Yangi Hissar. Photographer: Parsons, Arthur Edward Broadbent
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of one of the Chinese Ambans at Yangi Hissar, seated in a small wooden punt on a lily pond at Yangi Hissar.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
3 Aug 1927
Extent:
1 item

105. Photo 920/1(69)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(69)
Title:
'How we took the pelican to the wilderness.' Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Showing the pelican being released at the riverside, with Doris Skrine standing in the background. The incident, in which Skrine was given the inconvenient present of a pelican by Amban of Boghaz Langar, and which then had to be surreptitiously freed, is recounted in his 'Chinese Central Asia' (...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1924
Extent:
1 item

106. Photo 920/1(74)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(74)
Title:
At the Temple of Nyang Nyang, Khotan, May 1924: Ma Tungling, Mr Kerakin Moldovack, self and Li Amban. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group of the four figures posed in front of the temple gateway, with Turki figures in left foreground. [Glatin silver print, 298x227mm]. Subjects = Skrine Collection Location = China; Khotan; Xinjiang
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1924
Extent:
1 item

107. Photo 1042(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1042(19)
Title:
The Amban of Kargalik. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:
Full-length seated portrait of the Chinese official
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1915-Nov 1915
Extent:
1 item

108. Photo 1083/13(185)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1083/13(185)
Title:
Colonel Ma [Gyantse]. Photographer: Bailey, Frederick Marshman
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of Colonel Ma, the Amban's envoy. Subjects = Bailey Collection; military (general); military campaigns Location = Gyantse; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
11 Apr 1904
Extent:
1 item

109. Photo 1083/14(337)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1083/14(337)
Title:
Lhasa. Amban arriving to call on the Commissioner. Photographer: Bailey, Frederick Marshman
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Distant view of delegates approaching. The picture is dated 4 August in the album, but all other sources agree that the Amban visited Younghusband on the day of his arrival at Lhasa, viz. 3 August. Subjects = Bailey Collection; military (general); military campaigns ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
3 Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item

110. Photo 1083/14(338)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1083/14(338)
Title:
Lhasa. The Amban's bodyguard. Photographer: Bailey, Frederick Marshman
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Bodyguard approaching for the Amban's meeting with Younghusband. Subjects = Bailey Collection; bodyguards; military (general); military campaigns Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
3 Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item