Lonchen Shatra and staff at Gyantse en route to India. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Historical Events Group of Lonchen (Prime Minister) Shatra of Tibet with armed retainers in front of the fort at Gyantze, while en route to to attend the Simla Conference on relations between China, great Britain and Tibet. See 'Tibet Past and Present', pp. 148-59. For another, almost id...
Photograph of a telegram from the Grand Council at Lhasa to Charles Bell in Scotland announcing the opening of the Lhasa Telegraph line.
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Genre: Historical Events Text reads: 'Telegraph completed Lhassa due entirely your help we offer greetings best wishes your health Kashag [Grand Council] Lhassa.' Subjects = Bell Collection; communications; telegraphs
Phari Jong in ruins. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Distant view of the fort, silhouetted against mountains. The fort was was dismantled after the British expedition of 1904. Subjects = Bell Collection; dzongs; forts Location = Phari; Tibet