Tuhseeldar's Cutcherry. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of the official seated on a carpet with his hookah, surrounded by attendants: 'From Bhawun the view across the rice producing valley to the snow-clad Himalayas above Dhurmsala is very beautiful. A native subcollector or Tuhseeldar of revenue holds a Sm...
Dhurmsala.— Lower view. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from the mountainside, looking down onto the town and cantonment below, with hills stretching away in the distance beyond.
Goorkha soldiers and family. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a Gurkha soldier and his family, posed in front of their thatched hut at Dharmshala: 'A Goorkha regiment is stationed in the lines below. These Goorkhas, who fought so well in the rebellion of 1857, are residents of Nepaul originally, but most of them hav...
Dhurmsala Church. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down the mountainside to the church of St John in the Wilderness below. The Viceroy Lord Elgin is buried in the church.
Temple at Nugger [Nagar]. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the sanctuary tower of the temple, with its characteristic wooden superstructure: 'In the evening I went on to Nugger, fifteen miles further up the valley, and some 1,500 feet above the river...The temples of Koolloo have a curious kind of wooden...
Koolloo man and wife. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait of a Kulu man and woman: 'The head-dress of the Koolloo women is very peculiar, and to my eye extremely pretty, the hair being plaited and twisted round the head, like a turban. Those who do not have enough hair, supplement it w...
Twig suspension bridge. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of a bride across the Chandra River, one of the two main headwater streams of the Chenab: '...further on will be found a small photograph of a twig bridge in Spiti, similar to the one which His Excellency [Lord Elgin] found it so trying to cross near Koksur. H...