Genre: Landscape Photography General view looking towards the stone wall of the prison compound. Subjects = Bell Collection; crime and criminals; prisons
[?A stretch of the Tsang-po Valley near Kampa Partsi.] Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Caption untraced. River scene with mountains beyond. Subjects = Bell Collection; river scenes; unidentified Location = Tibet; Tsangpo Valley
Group with Dalai Lama taken at Hastings House, Calcutta. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
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Genre: Portrait Photography Formally posed group on terrace, with Bell and Tibetan and Sikkimese officials. Seated figures, left to right, are: Der-ge Se, Maharaj Kumar Sidkeong Trul-ku of Sikkim, Bell, Dalai Lama, Lonchen Sha-tra, Lonchen Sho-kang, Lonchen Tre-kang, Shappe Kun-sang-tse. Subj...
Cho-le Tru ku, later Deb Raja of Bhutan. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Seated portrait of Deb Raja, flanked by two attendants. Subjects = Bell Collection; Bhutanese rulers; Bhutias (ethnic group); ethnic groups
A Tibetan foot soldier, old style (?Lhasa). Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of soldier standing in courtyard, holding shield and wearing an elaborate head piece. (Tibet Past and present, p. 29). Subjects = Bell Collection; military (general); Tibetan army; uniforms Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Samding Monastery, the home of Dorje Pamo. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of monastery buildings. Dorje Pamo was the abbess and was visited by Bell during his mission to Lhasa (see The People of Tibet, pp. 165-168). Subjects = Bell Collection; monasteries; religion; religion (Buddhism); Tibetan architecture; Tibetan arc...