Stein Collection: Albums A.44-50. Tour of Swat, 1926. Photographer(s): Stein, Marc Aurel
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This collection of seven albums (containing 438 prints, numbered 1-419, plus duplicates) covers Stein's 1926 tour of Upper Swat in two sequences. Albums A.44-A.47 are larger formats prints, while albums A.48-A.50 cover the same period in smaller format photographs. Prints 385-419 from the same s...
Genre: Landscape Photography Distant view, looking along the valley towards the Younghusband Mission camp, with a large chorten or stupa and fortified buildings beyond. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (21), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'The last post...
The Potola [Potala Palace] and entrance gate [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the Potala Palace, with the roadway passing through the base of a chorten or stupa in the foreground (the Pargo Kaling Gateway). Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (23), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: ...
The entrance gate [Pargo Kaling] from inside [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the road towards the inner face of the chorten or stupa known as the Pargo Kaling, also seen in print 23, with a group of monks standing in the roadway in the foreground. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (24), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutt...