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Mss Eur F143/145

Record Id:

040-002313979

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002313829

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000143.0x00018f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Mss Eur F143/145

Title:

Album of photographs of Gilgit and places on the Gilgit Road from Kashmir. Photographer: Unknown

Scope & Content:

Half-leather and green cloth bound album, measuring 280 mm x 375 mm, and containing 84 albumen prints mounted one or two to a page, with handwritten captions beneath each photograph. The photographs are of Gilgit and places on the Gilgit Road from Kashmir, probably dating from a military expedition. Includes groups of British officers and native cavalry, Kashmiri villagers, and Raja Sikander Khan [ruler of Nagar from 1904]. Also manuscript list of soldiers who distinguished themselves on the Hunza, Nagar and Chilas campaigns.

[Transferred to Prints, Drawings and Photographs]

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

India Office Private Papers

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002313829
036-002313967
040-002313979

Is part of:

Mss Eur F143 : Papers of Sir Walter Lawrence, Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1879-95, Private Secretary to Viceroy 1899-1903, Commissioner for sick…
Mss Eur F143/134-153 : Sir Walter Lawrence, Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1879-95, Private Secretary to Viceroy 1899-1903, Commissioner for sick…

Mss Eur F143/145 : Album of photographs of Gilgit and places on the Gilgit Road from Kashmir. Photographer: Unknown

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Hierarchy:

032-002313829[0005]/036-002313967[0012]/040-002313979

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1883

End Date:

1905

Date Range:

c 1888-1905

Era:

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Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Gilgit, Northern Areas, Pakistan, Asia, Central Asia