Nai-chung [Nechung] Monastery. (Four photographs [prints 13-16]). Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View looking along a narrow street between monastery buildings, towards a flight of stone steps. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (54).
Nai-chung [Nechung] Monastery. (Four photographs [prints 13-16]). Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a flight of stone steps, leading up towards monastery buildings. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (55).
The Astrologer's Summer Residence [Nechung Monastery, near Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the front of the house, situated 'only a few yards behind the Monastery, slightly higher up the hillside...In front is the house built on a raised stone foundation; a neat little square stone house, slightly higher at each side than in the middle, with m...
The Astrologer's Summer Residence [Nechung Monastery]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of steps leading up to house, with a figure seated with a dog ('a splendid black Tibetan mastiff') in the foreground. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (58).
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the valley towards the monastery buildings, with the mountainside rising beyond: 'This is another large monastery outside Lhasa, similar to, but smaller than Dre-Pung. It contains about 5,000 Monks.' Another copy (printed in platinum) at Phot...
Street scene in Sera Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of monastery buildings, with mountainside rising behind. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (60).
The two stewards and senior lamas of Sera Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of monks, posed in the roadway, with monastery buildings behind: 'On the right of the photograph are the two steel maces which are the emblem of the stewards' authority, and are carried aloft before them on occasions of importance.' Another copy (print...
The entrance to Lhasa. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking past a chorten or stupa through which the road passes, towards the Potala Palace rising beyond: 'Through this Chorten, Colonel Younghusband and escort marched on the 4th August, 1904, when European troops for the first time in history entered ...
The Chorten, looking backward, or to the west from the foot of the Po-ta-la [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the road towards the chorten or stupa, also seen in print 23, with a group of monks standing in the roadway in the foreground. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (64).
Flag Staff Pagoda, Rangoon, with European barracks in foreground. Photographer: Jackson, J.
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Photograph from an album of 43 views of Burma (Myanmar) from the Sladen Collection, taken by J. Jackson in c.1868. View looking south over the European Infantry Barracks towards the Signal Pagoda, with the Rangoon River visible in the distance.
