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1. Photo 920

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920
Title:
Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine Collection: Photographs relating to his career and travels in Central Asia and India. Photographer(s): Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Collection divided into five parts (Photo 920/1-5)). Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine (1888-1974) was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, before entering the Indian Civil Service in 1912. He served in South Persia (Sibi and Kermah) from 1915-19 and was Political Agent at Chagai in 1921 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920s-1940s
Extent:
Unspecified

2. Photo 920/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/4
Title:
Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine Collection: South Indian Photographs. Photographer(s): Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Collection of photographs taken during Skrine's period as Resident for the Madras States (1936-39) and comprising: 1-30 30 uncaptioned Dufaycolor transparencies of Sout Indian scenes and family portraits. 31-42 12 loose prints of South India scenes, the majority uncaptioned.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1936-1937
Extent:
13 items

3. Photo 920/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/3
Title:
Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine Collection: Photographs 1920s-40s. Photographer(s): Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Collection of loose prints, the majority captioned on the reverse. Subjects include: Loharu, Punjab (1927), Kalat (1932), Panjghur (1932), Khalifat (c. 1930s), Quetta (1934), Las Bela, Simla (1939), Kapurthala (1939, 1940-41), Mandi City (c. 1940), Kashmir (1947), Lahore.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920s-1940s
Extent:
120 items

4. Photo 920/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1
Title:
Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine Collection: Views of Kashgar, Khotan, Yarkand and Chinese Turkestan. Photographer(s): Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Collection of 199 prints mainly relating to Skrine's period as Consul-General at Kashgar from 1922-24. Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine (1888-1974) was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, before entering the Indian Civil Service in 1912. He served in South Persia (Sibi and Kermah) from ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1917-1925
Extent:
116 items

5. Photo 920/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/2
Title:
Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine Collection: Views of Sarhad (Persian Baluchistan), Meshed and Tehran. Photographer(s): Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Collection of 43 loose prints relating to Skrine's service in Baluchistan, Meshed and Tehran between 1921 and 1948.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1921-1948
Extent:
43 items

6. Photo 920/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/5
Title:
Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine Collection: Photographs taken on a trip from Jhalawar to Bundi, Christmas 1941. Photographer(s): Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Collection of 26 loose prints, some captioned in pencil on reverse, the remainder untitled, showing topographical and architectural views at Jhalrapatan (Jhalawar State), Kota and Bundi. There is also a later portrait of the Maharaj Rana of Jhalawar and his wife (taken in 1943).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Dec 1941
Extent:
26 items

7. Photo 920/3(100)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/3(100)
Title:
Floods on Nuski-Duzdep railway. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the flooded line. [Gelatin silver print, 198x138mm]. Subjects = disasters; floods; railways; Skrine Collection; transport Location = Balochistan; Pakistan
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 920/1(102)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(102)
Title:
[Kucha and Khotan work embroidery.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photograph of two pieces of embroidery: (1) 18th century Kucha work, a circular plaque of gold thread embroidery on green velvet, from a robe, (2) Khotan work, red chain-stitch embroidery on cotton cloth, from a woman's trouser leg: 'Note Persian flower pattern...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920s
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 920/1(101)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(101)
Title:
[Khotan work: woman's embroidered dress.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography [Gelatin silver print, 235x294mm]. Subjects = dress; embroidery; Skrine Collection Location = China; Khotan; Xinjiang
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920s
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 920/3(74)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/3(74)
Title:
Mashobra. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view looking along the ridge. [Gelatin silver print, 306x218mm]. Subjects = hill stations; Skrine Collection Location = Himachal Pradesh; India; Mashobra
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930s
Extent:
1 item