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Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(172)
Title:: Une course au bouc dans le grand ravin d'Afrasiab. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Facing p. 172. Showing riders and spectators gathered for a buzkashi match at Afrasiab, to the north of Samarkand.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(174)
Title:: Un chevalier chaussé de bottes à haut talons pointus [buzkashi rider at Afrasiab, Samarkand]. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 174. Full-length portrait of one of the riders in the buzkashi (Turki: kok-boru)competition at Afrasiab, posed to display his high-heeled riding boots.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(184)
Title:: La grande course à Afrasiab pendant les fêtes du Sâli-Naou. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Facing p. 184. General view of the great concourse of horsemen on the hillside and in the valley below, gathered for a buzkashi (Turki: kok-boru) match, in which riders compete to score 'goals' with the headless body of a goat.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.20(30)
Title:: Le clipper, La Capricieuse, de Joinville. Photographer: Rousset, Ildefonse
Scope & Content:: View of a small sailing boat, presumably on the Marne at Joinville, with a bridge partly visible in the background.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1866
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10057.f.14(6)
Title:: The race course and Happy Valley [Hong Kong]. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Facing p. 17. General view looking down on the Happy Valley Racecourse, presumably photographed around the time of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to Hong Kong.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10470.i.3(6)
Title:: Cricketers on the Georgetown Parade Ground. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Facing p. 26. Vignetted oval image, a somewhat distant view looking towards the parade ground, where a cricket match is in progress.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1866
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49352(51)
Title:: Trial of strength of neck. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of two men, seated facing each other in a trial of strength, straining against the length of cloth looped around the neck of each.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49352(133)
Title:: [Japanese trial of strength of the neck.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio photograph, showing two men, a length of material looped around their necks, struggling against each other. The same activity is also seen in print 51.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70643 A(12)
Title:: Winnie — riding side saddle [Sukhumi, Georgia]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Snapshot of Winifred Cooper riding along a street in Sukhumi.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70650 A(129)
Title:: Reza Khan the Minister for War ('Sardar Sepah') and self [William John Cooper]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Snapshot of Reza Khan and William John Cooper at a race meeting, presumably in Tehran. A later note accompanying the print reads, 'Reza Khan — Minister for War (Saedar-e-Sepah) and Grandpa Cooper. Reza Khan was later (1925) to make himself Shah and became Reza Shah P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1910
Extent:: 1 item

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