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91. Photo 920/1(105)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(105)
Title:
Our Mussulman Chinese subject guests at the King's Birthday G.P. [garden party, Chini Bagh, Kashgar]. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View from the house looking towards the guests gathered in the garden of Chini Bagh. The caption note continues: 'Qazis, Mullahs and big merchants of Kashgar mostly. 2nd from right, front row, Mir Nasir Khan, our Mir Munshi. 3rd from right Mir Ahmed Kh., British Aksa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1924
Extent:
1 item

92. Photo 920/1(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(44)
Title:
Telepanorama of Tien Shan, 10 m. N. of Uch Turfan. 79°20'E looking N.N.W., Sept. 1923. Note loess bluffs on the Tushqan R. in foreground. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography With notes in French on back of print. Reproduced in Clarmont Skrine, 'Chinese Central Asia' (London, 1926, facing p. 258). [Gelatin silver print, 316x78mm]. Subjects = mountain scenery; panoramas; Skrine Collection Location = China; Tien Shan; Xinjiang
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1923
Extent:
1 item

93. Photo 920/1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(21)
Title:
The market place, Kashgar, from the mouth of one of the covered streets which lead to it. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of market. With French translation of caption pencilled on the reverse. [Gelatin silver print, 296x224mm]. Subjects = markets; Skrine Collection; street scenes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 item

94. Photo 920/1(111)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(111)
Title:
This is not a scene on the moon, but an overprinted 'Velox' telephoto of a glacier and the peaks at its head in the mountains which divide the Kaying from Chingan Valley. July '23. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography [Gelatin silver print, 128x78mm]. Subjects = glaciers; landscape features; mountain scenery; Skrine Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1923
Extent:
1 item

95. Photo 920/1(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(33)
Title:
In the Yangi Art valley of the S.E. Tien Shan north of Uch Turfan; about 9,500 ft. Ibex grounds in background where I lost an easy chance at a good head owing to my rifle-oil freezing and causing a misfire. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking up river gorge towards peaks. With French translation of caption on reverse of print. [Gelatin silver print, 192x306mm]. Subjects = mountain scenery; Skrine Collection Location = China; Tien Shan; Xinjiang; Yangi Art Valley
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 item

96. Photo 920/1(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(24)
Title:
King's Birthday Garden Party, 1924 [at Chini Bagh, Kashgar]; Mussulman guests in shamiana specially erected for the purpose in the rose garden. In front kneels the Imam, leading the prayer; he is the highest religious luminary of Kashgar. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View from an upper of Chini Bagh, the Consulate-General, looking down onto the garden towards the group at prayer beneath an awning. Reproduced in Clarmont Skrine, 'Chinese Central Asia' (London, 1926, facing p. 262). For another photograph taken at this event, see prin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1924
Extent:
1 item

97. Photo 920/1(57)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(57)
Title:
At the highest point reached, Kayingning glen (13,000 ft.). In the middle distance is the moraine of an ancient glacier of vast size. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards glaciers and mountains, with Doris Skrine riding on a yak in the foreground. Reproduced in Clarmont Skrine, 'Chinese Central Asia' (London, 1926, facing p. 100). [Gelatin silver print, 222x295mm]. Subjects = animals; glaciers; landscape featu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922
Extent:
1 item

98. Photo 920/1(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(50)
Title:
Crossing the Yangi Davan, 16,100 ft (Chinese Pamirs), July 1922. My wife riding a yak heads the caravan; kit follows on yaks and ponies. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down from the head of the pass onto the party c;imbing up. Reproduced in Clarmont Skrine, 'Chinese Central Asia' (London, 1926, facing p. 46). [Gelatin silver print, 289x219mm]. Subjects = mountain scenery; Skrine Collection Location = China; Xinji...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1922
Extent:
1 item

99. Photo 920/1(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(52)
Title:
Riding into Khotan at the head of the British subjects (Doris riding camel). Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Skrine's party riding along the road into Khotan. [Gelatin silver print, 289x218mm]. Subjects = roads and highways; Skrine Collection Location = China; Khotan; Xinjiang
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1922
Extent:
1 item

100. Photo 920/1(75)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(75)
Title:
A Chinese General in full array; Gen. Ma, Titai (G.O.C.) Southern Chinese Turkestan. Publicly executed on 3rd June '24. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of General Ma in military uniform. The career and demise of General Ma, 'our local ogre', is described in Clarmont Skrine, 'Chinese Central Asia' (London, 1926, pp. 261-269). For a view of his palace at Kashgar, see print 25. [Gelatin s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 item