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1. Photo 1084, 2(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(19)
Title:
Sera Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the valley towards the monastery buildings, with the mountainside rising beyond: 'This is another large monastery outside Lhasa, similar to, but smaller than Dre-Pung. It contains about 5,000 Monks.' Another copy (printed in platinum) at Phot...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1084, 2(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(23)
Title:
The entrance to Lhasa. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking past a chorten or stupa through which the road passes, towards the Potala Palace rising beyond: 'Through this Chorten, Colonel Younghusband and escort marched on the 4th August, 1904, when European troops for the first time in history entered ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1084, 2(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(10)
Title:
Dre-pung Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the valley towards the monastery on the far hillside: 'This vast building, the largest and richest monastery in Tibet, is situated in an embayment amongst the hills, about four miles outside Lhasa. It is officially supposed to contain 7000 Mo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1084, 2(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(20)
Title:
Street scene in Sera Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of monastery buildings, with mountainside rising behind. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (60).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1084, 2(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(13)
Title:
Nai-chung [Nechung] Monastery. (Four photographs [prints 13-16]). Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of monastery buildings, partly obscured by foreground trees. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (53).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1084, 2(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(14)
Title:
Nai-chung [Nechung] Monastery. (Four photographs [prints 13-16]). Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View looking along a narrow street between monastery buildings, towards a flight of stone steps. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (54).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1084, 2(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(15)
Title:
Nai-chung [Nechung] Monastery. (Four photographs [prints 13-16]). Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a flight of stone steps, leading up towards monastery buildings. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (55).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1084, 2(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(18)
Title:
The Astrologer's Summer Residence [Nechung Monastery]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of steps leading up to house, with a figure seated with a dog ('a splendid black Tibetan mastiff') in the foreground. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (58).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1084, 2(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(17)
Title:
The Astrologer's Summer Residence [Nechung Monastery, near Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the front of the house, situated 'only a few yards behind the Monastery, slightly higher up the hillside...In front is the house built on a raised stone foundation; a neat little square stone house, slightly higher at each side than in the middle, with m...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1084, 2(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(21)
Title:
The two stewards and senior lamas of Sera Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of monks, posed in the roadway, with monastery buildings behind: 'On the right of the photograph are the two steel maces which are the emblem of the stewards' authority, and are carried aloft before them on occasions of importance.' Another copy (print...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item