Parsons Collection: Album of views of India, Afghanistan and Europe by Major General Sir Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons. Photographer(s): Parsons, Arthur Edward Broadbent
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Full leather bound album measuring 352 x 500 mm, decorated with blind tooling, and with initials 'A.P.' stamped in gold in centre of front cover. The album is numbered '3' on the front cover. The album is enclosed in a card slipcase. Prints are mounted several to a page, with handwritten caption...
Sasir Bransa. Photographer: Parsons, Arthur Edward Broadbent
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down onto the caravanserai at Sasir Bransa: 'At Sassir Bransa we found a Yarkandi caravan sharing the ruined sarai with the skeletons which were here thicker than ever. I was glad of the dried raisins and green tea they gave us...' (Mss Eur D696/4).