Goorkha soldiers and family. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a Gurkha soldier and his family, posed in front of their thatched hut at Dharmshala: 'A Goorkha regiment is stationed in the lines below. These Goorkhas, who fought so well in the rebellion of 1857, are residents of Nepaul originally, but most of them hav...
Dhurmsala Church. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down the mountainside to the church of St John in the Wilderness below. The Viceroy Lord Elgin is buried in the church.
Temple at Nugger [Nagar]. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the sanctuary tower of the temple, with its characteristic wooden superstructure: 'In the evening I went on to Nugger, fifteen miles further up the valley, and some 1,500 feet above the river...The temples of Koolloo have a curious kind of wooden...
Genre: Landscape Photography View across fields towards the cluster of houses of the village of Khibbar, reached by Egerton on 10 July: 'In Khiebar there are twenty houses belonging to landowners, and thirty of forty more inhabited by their dependants and artizans. Across a little ravine, front...
Kee Monastery. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the monastery buildings at ki, clustered on a steep conical hill: 'July 16th. Marched to Kazé...About four miles from Khiebar was the monastery or Gonpa of Kee, the largest in Spiti. It is built on a small isolated hill, and is extremely peculiar and pic...
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the monastery and other buildings, perched on the mountainside over looking the cliffs: 'July 18th...The fort, monastery, and village of Dhunkur are most picturesquely situated on a bluff of conglomerate limestone, which is connected with the uplands by a na...