Report of a mission to Sikkim and the Tibetan frontier with a memorandum on our relations with Tibet. By Colman Macaulay, Secretary to Government of Bengal Calcutta: Govt of Bengal, 1885
Genre: Portrait Photography Mounted facing p. 43. Portrait group of Macaulay and other mission members, posed with the Jongpen in front of a tent: 'This morning I kept my tent standing in order to have a photograph of the group taken...The Jongpen and his people all took the greatest interest i...
Lachung village, with ancient moraines above. Photographer: Paul, Alfred Wallace
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Genre: Landscape Photography Facing p. 29. General view of village: 'Paul took two photographs of the village and moraines with a hroup. I particularly wished to get in the moraines, as Sir Joseph Hooker describes them so fully, and I hoped to send him a photograph to compare with his own pictu...
Yamdo Chu River in the Lachen Valley. Photographer: Macaulay, Colman Patrick Louis
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted facing p. 31. View upstream towards waterfall: 'About half a mile further we came to the Yamdo Chu fed entirely by a magnificent waterfall. We timed the fall of the water from the top, and found it to be 6 to 6 and a half seconds. The waterfall came from a d...
Chomiomo (22,290 [feet]) and glacier. Photographer: Paul, Alfred Wallace
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted facing p. 37. View showing porters climbing the pass, with glaciers and peaks beyond: 'At Chomiom Chu we got a magnificent view of Chomiomo (22,290), with precipices of solid ice above black cliffs hung with gigantic icicles and a stupendous glacier broken i...
Sirchum, in Lachen Valley (11,200 [feet]), with Chomiomo to right. Photographer: Macaulay, Colman Patrick Louis
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted facing p. 33. View towards river, with houses on left: 'At Sirchum (11,200) got photograph above flat with Chomiomo in distance...' (p. 34).