Subject: Shrines / Material Type: Photographs - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/7/232(14)
Title:: Shrine of Muhamead [sic] Mahruk. Tomb of Omar Khayyam showing in left wing [at Nishapur or Neyshabur]. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view, but with top of dome of main tomb out of picture. 'Less than half a mile to the east [of the tomb of Farid-ud-din], in the heart of old Nishapur, the walls of which now resemble banks of earth, is a garden shrine. Under the dome, in the place of ho...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Nov 1908-Dec 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/7/232(15)
Title:: Kadamagh from the east. Photographer: Watson, John Williams
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across fields towards domed shrine (somewhat distant): '...Upon leaving Nishapur, we rode to Kadamgah, where a shrine was built by Shah Abbas to cover the footprint of the Imam Riza. This shrine is surrounded by fine pines of a different species to ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Nov 1908-Dec 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/11/76, P 1383/1914 (22)
Title:: The Hazrat Sultan Shrine [at Shad Mina, west of Darreh Gaz]. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of shrine, with pilgrims in front: 'On the second day we rode off west [from Darreh Gaz] to inspect various ancient sites...Leaving the Governor to examine his fine crop of cotton, we rode westwards for another six miles to a second ruined site, ter...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1913
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: K.T.C.121.b.1, 2(121)
Title:: The shrine in the south front of the Yung-an Temple stupa. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1901
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: K.T.C.121.b.1, 2(122)
Title:: The idol in the shrine before the Yung-an Temple stupa. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture of a many-armed diety.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1901
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: K.T.C.121.b.1, 2(139)
Title:: The seven-storied pagoda in the shrine. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Interior view of the circular shrine, with the miniature pagoda in the centre.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1901
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: K.T.C.121.b.1, 2(157)
Title:: The Ch'ing-chêng Shrine in the Temple of Agriculture. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the paved court towards the shrine building.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1901
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: L.R.298.b.2, 1(30)
Title:: At the shrine — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in the negative: 'Copyright 1904 By E.S. Curtis'. Genre: Portrait Photography View of a group of three Navaho with their horses, standing beside a shrine made of stones: 'Scattered about the Navaho reservation are so many cairn shrines. The Navaho, when alone or in parti...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1904
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Maps 2.e.29(4)
Title:: Bayerisches Hochland. Partie an der Vereinsalpe bei Mittenwald. Photographer: Johannes, B.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View of the Bavarian Alps near Mittenwald, with a small shrine and a water-pump in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

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