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1. Photo 976

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 976
Title:
From Simla through Ladac and Cashmere, by Captain Melville Clarke. 1861. Photographer(s): Clarke, Melville
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Calcutta: Savielle & Cranenburgh, printers, Bengal Printing Company Limited. 1862.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
37 items

2. Photo 976(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 976(1)
Title:
Simla. The favorite Sanatarium of the Himalayas, showing the Church, with the Racket Court and Assembly Rooms, in the foreground. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View from below, looking up the hillside towards Christ Church (rather faded in this print), with the Assembly Rooms in the centre foreground. Subjects = British colonial architecture; churches; Clarke, M., 'From Simla through Ladac and Cashmere' (1862); European ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 976(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 976(2)
Title:
Nagkunda. A staging bungalow on the grand Thibet road, thirty-five miles from Simla, 9,000 feet above sea-level: commanding a view of unparalleled magnificence. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of dak bungalow. Subjects = British colonial architecture; bungalows; Clarke, M., 'From Simla through Ladac and Cashmere' (1862); dak bungalows; European architecture in India Location = Himachal Pradesh; India; Narkanda
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 976(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 976(3)
Title:
Kotegoor [Kotgarh]. Fifty miles in the interior from Simla, approaching Kooloo. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of houses on hillside, with cultivated fields in foreground. Kotgarh stands north-east of Simla on a spur of the Hatu Range overlooking the Sutlej. Subjects = agriculture; Clarke, M., 'From Simla through Ladac and Cashmere' (1862); crops Location = Himachal...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 976(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 976(4)
Title:
An effect in the hills. Clouds rising from the ravine [?Kotgarh]. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Path leading to bungalow among trees in left foreground, with clouds beyond obscuring the mountains on the far side of the (?Sutlej) valley. Location unspecified, probably in the neighbourhood of Kotgarh. Subjects = Clarke, M., 'From Simla through Ladac and Cashme...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 976(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 976(5)
Title:
A Saungur, or hill bridge, over the River Sutlej, at Kepoo, below Kotegoor. The span of this bridge is 120 feet, being the greatest known in the hills... Photographer: Clarke, Melville
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the river, with the bridge in the foreground. The caption note continues: '...The Saungur is formed by entire trees, laid parallel, planked over, and supported by piers consisting of trees embedded in embankments of stones. On the brink of the riv...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 976(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 976(6)
Title:
A mountain torrent near Jebee, in Kooloo. In the background are seen the slated roofs of water mills, used by the natives for grinding their corn. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking upstream towards the wooden footbridge across the stream, with three Europeans posed on the bridge. Subjects = bridges; Clarke, M., 'From Simla through Ladac and Cashmere' (1862); river scenes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 976(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 976(7)
Title:
A Jhoola, or rope bridge at Largee, in Kooloo. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography A negative print, showing a figure being winched across the river. Caption note continues: 'The Jhoola, common in the hills, is formed of ropes loosely suspended from bank to bank, attached at both ends to trees or rocks. The piers of a Saungur, which has been carri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 976(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 976(8)
Title:
A Sugzum or twig bridge at Kokesur, in Lahoul. Photographer: Clarke, Melville
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards bridge, with rocky hillside on far bank. A rather contrasty print. Caption note continues: 'The Sugzum is formed of cables of twisted birchen twigs fastened together, two for the flooring, and one for either side, and supported at the ends by pi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 976(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 976(9)
Title:
PRINT MISSING.
Scope & Content:
Subjects = Clarke, M., 'From Simla through Ladac and Cashmere' (1862)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item