Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the valley towards the village, 'a post between Kalatso and Kang-Mar'. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (21).
Na-tho [Natu La] from Cham-pi-thang. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Landscape Photography 'Cham-pi-thang was the first halting place on the Tibet side of the Na-tho La, and this picture gives a most vivid idea of the glorious scenery looking backward from Cham-pi-thang over the fir-clad slopes of the mountains, with the steep, snow-covered pass into Sikh...
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the plain looking towards the Tibetan fort, with Chumolhari in the left background. The tents of the British Mission can be seen in the foreground. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (20).
The Mo-chu River. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking upriver towards a bridge. 'The river flows down from Tibet through Chumbi and Bhutan to the plains of Bengal, and comes out near Madari Hat on the Dooars Railway in the plains. A survey has been made of this route, and if a road be made from a point in ...
Genre: Landscape Photography View along the river towards the bridge: 'This is a view of a cantilever bridge over the Mo-chu, where one reaches the valley a few miles before arriving at Chumbi.' Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (18).
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the walls of the fort, with Indian soldiers posed in the foreground: 'Pha-Ri-Jong, thirty miles from Chumbi, is the first stage of many, where trees are no longer seen and where everything is bare and desolate. This Jong was taken without oppo...
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the valley towards the fort and a large chorten or stupa, with the tents of the British Mission pitched around the fortified position: 'The last post on the march to Gyang-tse. This fort was attacked on the early morning of the 6th June by a large...