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311. Photo 1150(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1150(12)
Title:
Le Shan, Sichuan, China. Photographer: Lois Conner
Scope & Content:
Panoramic platinum contact print, showing Chinese characters inscribed on an interior wall of an unidentified structure.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1997
Extent:
1 item

312. Photo 1152(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1152(11)
Title:
Clerks at Rosa. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait group of Indian clerical staff at the Rosa sugar estate and rum factory near Shahjahanpur, posed with account books round a table on a verandah.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1881-1887
Extent:
1 item

313. Photo 1161(69)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1161(69)
Title:
Iapanische Mädchen. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the negative in Japanese. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of a young Japanese woman, seated in front of small wooden writing table.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

314. Photo 1161(80)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1161(80)
Title:
Iapanischer Knabe zeichnend. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of a young Japanese boy, practising calligraphy at a small wooden table.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

315. Photo 1161(97)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1161(97)
Title:
Chinesische Visitenkarte. (Versehentlieh verkehrt augeklebt.)
Scope & Content:
Sheet of red paper inscribed with three Chinese characters in black ink. The caption notes that this visiting card has been inadvertantly pasted into the album upside down.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1881
Extent:
1 item

316. Photo 1167(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(1)
Title:
Young nuns studying religious texts at Pangmo Convent, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Showing two young nuns studying texts, while seated among coils of piping, with a group of nuns watching from the steps above: 'Young nuns studying religious texts at Pangmo Convent, a new monastery built with funds raised by an American Buddhist nun. The plastic piping now brings water to the n...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1993
Extent:
1 item

317. Photo 1167(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(18)
Title:
Young monks studying religious texts at Key Monastery, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Young monks studying religious texts at Key Monastery. Traditionally monasteries were the only centres of formal education in Spiti. Now there are also nunneries and many secular schools' (Patrick Sutherland).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1995
Extent:
1 item

318. Photo 1167(53)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(53)
Title:
Buchen Chettan Dorje and Pema Namgyal praying in a house in Lara, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'Buchen Chettan Dorje and Pema Namgyal praying in a house in Lara. Chettan Dorje is reading and reciting from Tibetan scripts, Pema Namgyal is turning a prayer wheel. Buchen are religious performers who bring the teachings of the Dharma and the message of Buddhism to...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 2004
Extent:
1 item

319. Photo 1188(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1188(7)
Title:
Looking into Shappat-po Street, from one of the nightwatch bridges, Canton. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

320. Photo 1192(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(14)
Title:
Boys at study. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:
Coloured postcard, undivided back. Showing a group of young students, seated with their books in front of an elderly teacher on rugs in the open air.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

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