Do-Ta-Ussu. Young Mongolian girl making shoes. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Similar to neg. 1106, showing the young woman seated at her work. Two images, partly overlapping, on single sheet of film. Duplicate safety film negative only, no print.
Tongsa Penlop [Sir Ugyen Wang Chuk] and family [Tongsa, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, posed in front of the wooden verandah of a house. The figures in the photograph are identified as follows: front row—eldest daughter of Thimbu Jongpen, Tongsa Penlop, sister of Tongsa Penlop; back row (on verandah)—younger daughter also married to nep...
Tongsa Penlop's sister's family [Tongsa, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, the family gathered on the entrance steps to a house. The photograph was used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 434), with the following caption: 'The Royal Family of Bhutan. On the top step stands the king, not in his robes of state b...
[Group portrait incorrectly captioned as] The Nawab of Bhurtpore and Suite [Should read: Sadiq Muhammad Khan, Nawab of Bahawalpur, and Council of Regency]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Portrait Photography The photograph depicts the young ruler seated with state officials in the company of two European Political Agents. Sadiq Muhammad Khan (1862-1899) succeeded to the nawabship in 1866 as a child of four and during the period of his minority the administration was plac...
Native Nautch at Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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Group of dancers and musicians performing before an audience in the courtyard of a palace. Women in purdah can be seen looking down from a balcony through bamboo screens in the background. The print is unsigned but has been attributed to Charles Shepherd. Print 24 in this album of a dancer and t...
Three of Sir Bhadoors favorite wives and his youngest son [Nepal]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of four members of Sir Jang Bahadur's family, flanked by two female servants holding furled umbrellas and posed in front of a tent. A modern note below the caption identifies one of the women as possibly his daughter and refers for comparison to the po...
Inscription: Numbered '809' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Bourne no. 809. Group portrait of Kashmiri women, seated and standing on a rug in front of an unidentified building, presumably at Srinagar. This is probably the group of nautch girls described by Bourne a...
Nautch girl and Musicians [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a dancer and two musicians, taken at the same location as print 15. Exhibited Museum of Sydney, Encountering India, 16 May - 17 August 1997.
Group of Bhooteas, Darjeeling. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bourne 1904' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Formally posed group of two men and two women, in front of a house at Darjeeling.