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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63135(38)
Title:: For good luck, Dalung, 15900 ft, 28-8-06. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View of cairn and prayer flags.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 28 Aug 1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63135(39)
Title:: The new and old Serpons, Thok Dalung. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of the two Serpons and retainers at Dalung. The occasion is noted in Calvert's diary for 29 August: 'The old and new serpons came to call and proved to be pleasant affable young men; I finally photographed them' (Mss. Add. 63121, f. 109).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 29 Aug 1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63135(40)
Title:: Thok Dalung, miners' tents. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography General view of the miners' encampment, with mountains beyond. Calvert stayed several days inspecting the gold-digging activities at Dalung, which he considered 'one of the most interesting places I have seen in Tibet' (f. 108). On 30 August he notes: 'Took some mor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63135(41)
Title:: Thok Dalung, miners' tents. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Closer view of a line of tents.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63135(42)
Title:: Hauling up the earth from the mines. Note the size of the mine mouth [Thok Dalung]. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Showing a miner hauling on a rope let down into a small hole in the ground, with another miner and a child watching.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63135(43)
Title:: Women workers, Thok Dalung. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:: View of two women in front of miner's tent at Thok Dalung.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63135(44)
Title:: Beating the clods of earth with yaks' horns preparatory to washing [Thok Dalung] Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:: View looking towards a group of gold-diggers at work.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63135(45)
Title:: Washing for gold [Thok Dalung]. The actual washer is the middle man of these three. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:: View of miners at work, digging near the river. With a further pencilled note refering to the pile of earth on the right: 'This heap is the winter collection — when no washing is possible.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63135(46)
Title:: Old lady washing for gold. She is sinking her bowl in the water [Thok Dalung]. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:: Showing an aged Tibetan woman squatting beside a stream.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63135(47)
Title:: Washing for gold [Thok Dalung]. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:: View of miner at work between two channels of water (marked in pencil, 'branch channel' and 'main channel'). With an explanatory pencilled note: 'A small channel with a good drop is lined with cloth and then with stones, the earth is slowly raked into this.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 28-30 Aug 1906
Extent:: 1 item

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