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11. Photo 430/53(85)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(85)
Title:
The Chinese Amban [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of the Chinese Resident at Lhasa, seated on horseback with attendants grouped round him. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (45), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c.1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

12. Photo 430/53(86)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(86)
Title:
The Nepalese representative in Lhasa. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of Captain Jit Bahadur, his wife and a young son. This is one of the handful of prints in this album not reproduced in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

13. Photo 1084, 2(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(42)
Title:
The Regent [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait: 'Ti Rimpochi, of Galdan Monastery, who has risen from the lowest ranks of the priesthood to be the most learned and revered Doctor of Divinity throughout Tibet, and who now, by virtue of a decree of the Chinese Emperor, is acting...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

14. Photo 1084, 2(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(43)
Title:
The Sha-pes [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of the four Shapés: 'These officials may be described as the Executive Council of four, though they apparently had no Executive power, and were not summoned to the Councils. Their names, from left to right, are Utuk, Sechung, Tsarong, an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

15. Photo 1112/1(106)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/1(106)
Title:
The Do-rings at Gyantse. Servants standing behind. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Seated portrait of Do-ring Ku-sho and his wife, with servants standing behind. The Do-ring family had for generations served as civil administartors to the Tibetan government, but the figure seen here had been dismissed and exiled from Lhasa for alleged complicity in...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1915
Extent:
1 item

16. Photo 1112/4(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1112/4(9)
Title:
The Dalai Lama's Lonchens or ministers leaving the Foreign Office [London]. Photographer: Unknown
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1913
Extent:
1 item

17. Photo 1224/2(159)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(159)
Title:
[The Maharajah's Representatives, Srinuggur.] Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Numbered 598 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Full-length portrait of three men, posed in the open air against a cloth backdrop. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'The Maharajah's Representatives, Srinuggur.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863-1865
Extent:
1 item

18. Photo 1224/3(56)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(56)
Title:
Magistrate's Court. Photographer: Saunders, W.
Scope & Content:
Studio re-enactment of a Chinese trial scene. With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'No.30.- A Court Scene. The presiding magistrate occupies the bench, and on either side are his clerks. The prosecutor, who, in this instance, holds some small official preferment, is seated to the right ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

19. Photo 1224/3(60)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(60)
Title:
Mandarins. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
A full-length seated group portrait of mandarins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1875
Extent:
1 item

20. Photo 1224/4(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(44)
Title:
Execution at Batavia [Jakarta]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
'Execution of the eight so-called Tambun murderers in Bekasi on 24 August 1870. These men were sentenced to death for the murder of a number of people, among them the Assistant-Resident of Meester Cornelis, now Jatinegara, E. R. J. C.de Kuijper, on 2 April 1869. Although the attempt at rebellion...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
24th August 1870
Extent:
1 item