Subject: Religion - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1192(145)
Title:: Burmese Bhuddist priests at their morning meal. From the reprint negative by Watts & Skeen. Photographer: Watts and Skeen
Scope & Content:: Monochrome postcard, divided back. Group of Buddhist monks seated on the ground on mats, with bowls of food.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1900s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1192(156)
Title:: Shans making offerings to Buddhist monks. Publisher: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
Scope & Content:: Coloured postcard, divided back. Showing the Buddhist monks seated on the verandah of a building, with offerings on the shelves in front of them, and the Shan group seated on mats in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1900s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1202/3(40)
Title:: Midday prayers in a mosque outside Chicago. Photographer: Michael Katakis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed by photographer on lower print border.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 20 Sep 2001
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1203(9)
Title:: Angkor Wat: portrait of monks. Photographer: Lois Conner
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed in pencil on back: Lois Conner AP 1/5 IX. Group portrait of young monks and children.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1993
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(100)
Title:: Fakeers [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:: Signed and numbered Shepherd & Robertson Photo: 1127 in the negative. Portrait of two ascetics, one standing, one seated cross-legged. Photograph listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Udasees (Fakeers).'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(160)
Title:: [Pundits and Mussulmans, Srinagar.] Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:: Numbered 604 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Full-length portrait of four men, posed in the open air against a cloth backdrop. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Pundits and Mussulmans.'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1863-1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(186)
Title:: Llama Priest. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:: Full-length portrait of a Tibetan lama, holding prayer beads, posed against a cloth backdrop and leaning against a stand draped with textiles. This appears to be no. 1132A in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, 'A Thibetian Llama from Lassa.'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/3(45)
Title:: [Chinese] Priests. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:: Full-length studio portrait of a group of priests, with a table in the centre on which stand religious articles and a miniature statue of Buddha. With contemporary descriptive printed label: 'No. 42-Priests. And here are the priests. Dirty, ignorant, lazy rascals, without exception; but in China...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/5(27)
Title:: Daibutz [Buddha image at Kamakura]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Inscribed and numbered Daibutz 351 in the negative. View looking towards the massive Buddha image at Kamakura.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

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