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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1042 Material Type Photographs

1. Photo 1042

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1042
Title:
Photographs taken by Lt. Col. Sir Percy Sykes to illustrate Chinese Turkestan, the Russian Pamirs and Osh. April-November, 1915. Photographer(s): Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:
Green half-leather bound album measuring 230 mm x 297 mm, in generally sound condition apart from worn and loose spine, with prints inserted two to a page in aperture mounts. The title given above is written on the front free endpaper in white ink in a very neat hand. The prints are similarly ca...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
48 items

2. Photo 1042(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1042(1)
Title:
The British Consulate-General, Kashgar. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:
General view looking across the garden towards Chini-bagh, the residence of the British Consul in Kashgar.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1915-Nov 1915
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1042(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1042(2)
Title:
View across the Tuman Su from the terrace of the British Consulate-General [Kashgar]. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:
General view looking towards the river.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1915-Nov 1915
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1042(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1042(3)
Title:
The Tuman Su at Kashgar. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:
Horses being watered in the river. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 56.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1915-Nov 1915
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1042(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1042(4)
Title:
A soothsayer [Kashgar]. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:
Full-length seated portrait of the magician or soothsayer, with his young assistant standing beside him, holding aloft a drum. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 314.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1915-Nov 1915
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1042(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1042(5)
Title:
The City Wall at Kashgar. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:
Four figures (a soldier, two children and another man) posed on steps on the city wall.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1915-Nov 1915
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1042(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1042(6)
Title:
A Kashgar school. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:
Teacher with pupils, standing courtyard reading from books. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 316: 'We visited the chief boys' school in Kashgar, where the master bade his favourite pupils recite passages from the Koran. This they di...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1915-Nov 1915
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1042(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1042(7)
Title:
The British Aksakals (or agents) in Chinese Turkestan [at Kashgar]. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of ten Aksakals.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1915-Nov 1915
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1042(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1042(8)
Title:
Kashgari musicians. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:
Group of three female musicians, seated on a carpet in a garden. The central figure plays a kind of guitar with a very long neck, the one on the right holds a tambourine. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 170.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1915-Nov 1915
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1042(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1042(9)
Title:
Chinese soldiers at the feet of the War God [Kashgar]. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
Scope & Content:
Three Chinese soldiers standing in front of a large stone image of a lion at the Kashgar Yamen. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 74.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1915-Nov 1915
Extent:
1 item