Zetland Collection: Album of views of the Middle East, South and Central Asia and the Far East. Photographer(s): Zetland, 2nd Marquess of
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Brown half-leather album, 423 x 325 mm, containing mounted prints captioned and dated by Zetland. The album cover shows signs of water damage. The photographs were taken by Zetland during his travels through Kashmir, Baltistan, Iran, Iraq, Samarkand, Mongolia, China, Japan and Burma. Subjects in...
Kashmir: the Gurais Valley. Photographer: Zetland, 2nd Marquess of
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Genre: Landscape Photography View along river valley. Reproduced in Earl of Ronaldshay, 'Sport and Politics under an Eastern Sky' (Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1902), p. 192. Subjects = mountain scenery; Zetland Collection Location = Baltistan; Gurais Valley; India/Pakistan disputed ter...
A log hut in the mountains of Kashmir. Photographer: Zetland, 2nd Marquess of
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of dak bungalow among trees. Reproduced in Earl of Ronaldshay, 'Sport and Politics under an Eastern Sky' (Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1902), p. 191, there titled, 'Tragbal log hut.' Subjects = British colonial architecture; dak bungalows; European ar...
A native of the Basha Valley in Baltistan. Photographer: Zetland, 2nd Marquess of
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Duplicate at Photo 364/1 (38). Portrait of a Balti man standing with a gun. This is Zetland's Balti hunting guide Moyhut, from the village of Doko. Reproduced in Earl of Ronaldshay, 'Sports and Politics under an Eastern Sky' (Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 19...
Gesso, my Ladaki guide. Photographer: Zetland, 2nd Marquess of
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of Gesso, his gun slung across his shoulder. Reproduced in Earl of Ronaldshay, 'Sport and Politics under an Eastern Sky' (Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1902), p. 140: 'Much to my regret Gesso here [at Chang Chenmo] left me, sayi...