Miscellaneous views of landscape, architecture and Tibetan types, a number credited on the reverse to Major R. Hamond. Locations include Gartok, Shirang La, Taling, Dunkar, Tashigong and a view of Mount Kailas taken by T.S. Blakeney
Negatives of Ceylon and India. Photographer: Blakeney, Thomas Sydney
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Three original film negatives, two of archaeological subjects in Sri Lanka (stupa at Mihintale and (?)Anuradhapura) and negative of print 105 (factory building under construction, India).
Portrait of the Revd. Charles Hudson. Photographer: Unknown
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Full-length seated carte-de-visite portrait of Revd. Charles Hudson (1828-1865), Vicar of Shillington, Lincs 1859-65. Regarded as the best amateur alpinist of his time, he organised the party that ascended Mont Blanc without guides in 1855 and was killed in a fall while descending the Matterhorn...