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371. P.P.1931.k, 5(79)

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P.P.1931.k, 5(79)
Title:
Hindoo dancing girls. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Stereoscopic view of a group of dancing girls, with descriptive text, p. 79. Published in part no. 77, November 1864. Not published in Scott's 'Sketches in India; taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency' (Lovell Reeve, London, 1862), altho...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

372. P.P.1931.k, 5(91)

Reference (shelfmark):
P.P.1931.k, 5(91)
Title:
A Parsee servant. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Stereoscopic view, a full-length seated portrait of a young Parsee man, with descriptive text, p. 91. Published in part no. 79, January 1865. Not published in Scott's 'Sketches in India; taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency' (Lovell Reeve, Lo...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

373. P.P.1931.k, 5(95)

Reference (shelfmark):
P.P.1931.k, 5(95)
Title:
The Hindoo bangle-seller. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Stereoscopic view of a bangle seller with his wares, with descriptive text, p. 95. Published in part no. 80, February 1865. This photograph was also published as plate 63 in Scott's 'Sketches in India; taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency' (L...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

374. Photo 11(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(28)
Title:
Toda mund, village and Todas [Nilgiri Hills]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View from a slightly elevated position, looking down onto a group of Toda men and women, posed in front of one of their distinctive thatched houses. The photograph was shown at the 1869 Bengal Photographic Society Exhibition, where it was considered 'a successful picture of its class.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

375. Photo 20(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(6)
Title:
The Musicians of the Paro Jongpen [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of Bhutia musicians, posed in a clearing with ponies.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

376. Photo 20(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(29)
Title:
Musicians of Tongsa Penlop [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group of musicians and dancers gathered in the same courtyard seen in the preceding print. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 435), with the following caption: 'The King's singing girls. We were entertained ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

377. Photo 20(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(36)
Title:
Bhutanese coolies being fed after arrival in camp [Lingzi]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of Bhutanese seated on ground as food is distributed, with tents in the background and hills beyond. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 450), with the following caption: 'Feeding followers after arrival in camp: black yaks' hair tents an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

378. Photo 20(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(37)
Title:
Tongsa Penlop's sister's family [Tongsa, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

379. Photo 28/2(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(25)
Title:
Group of Bhooteas, Darjeeling. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1868
Extent:
1 item

380. Photo 28/2(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(26)
Title:
Group of Bhooteas and Nepaulese. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bourne 1906' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of five men and two women, posed in front of a doorway, beyond which can be seen a stack of wooden crates (presumably containing tea). The two women, probably estate labou...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1868
Extent:
1 item