Photo 525

Collection of loose prints. Views mainly in Tibet with additional miscellaneous portraits and views and some personal papers of Harry Brooks relating to his membership of the freemasons and discharge from army service.

The Tibetan photographs should be compared with those at Photo 305, to which there is a marked resemblance. The catalogue notes for that album suggest that they may be the work of Henry Martin, who manned the telegraph line in Tibet after the Younghusband Expedition; however, although one of the prints in this collection is signed 'HM', the majority are signed, 'JG', an as yet unidentified photographer.

Prints 1-8 Portraits of Europeans including a picnic scene, an officer with Indian troops and a baby in a pram. Print 9 Snowy peak, Tibet. Print 10 Chinese officials with the British Trade Agent, David MacDonald, at Yatung. Group posed in front of trade agent's house. Print 11 Photograph of a painting of Lhasa? Print 12 Tibetan group. Print 13 General view of Gyangze. Prints 14-15 Tibetan groups. Print 16 Monastery, Gyangze? Print 17 River scene. Print 18 Tibetan army group? Print 19 River scene. Print 20 Chinese army on the march in Tibet. Print 21 Bridge over a river. Print 22 General view of Gyangze with the Palkhor Choyde on the left. Print 23 Bridge over a river. Print 24 Palkhor Choyde, Gyangze. Print 25 General view, Gyangze. Print 26 Tibetan dancers. Print 27 Palkhor Choyde, Gyangze. Print 28 Tibetan dancers. Print 29 Monastery on the Assam border? Print 30 Agent's bungalow, Yatung. Prints 31-32 River scenes. Print 33 Village scene. Prints 34-35 Buddha images. Print 36 Village scene. Prints 37-38 Buddha images. Print 39 View of an ice-flow. Print 40 View of a footbridge. Prints 41-44 Buddha images and idols and a Tibetan dance. Prints 45-46 Rural scenes. Prints 47-64 Views mainly in Gyangze including the British Trade Agent's fort, European cemetery and guard of honour for the Chinese Ambassador, also Tibetan dance and Buddha image. Prints 65-66 Views of two bungalows, one with a carefully laid out garden. Print 67 Boats on the lake, Naini Tal. Print 68-71 Postcard views of Simla. Print 72 View of a ceremony at a flagstaff in India. Prints 73-75 Jami Masjid and Golden mosque, Delhi.