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Photo 743/5
- Record Id:
- 040-003101926
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003101837
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026021938.0x00087b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 743/5
- Title:
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Frank Ludlow Collection: Album of views in Sikkim, Tibet and Bhutan. Photographer(s): Ludlow, Frank
- Scope & Content:
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Black half-leather bound album with blue cloth sides (binding broken and boards detached from album block), measuring 277x376mm, with prints mounted several to a page, captioned in white ink. Most of the prints in Photo 743/4 are duplicated in the album. The contents of the album can be broadly broken down as follows:
Prints 1-15 Views in Sikkim, including Residency at Gangtok.
Prints 16-51 Landscape and mountain scenery in southern Tibet, on road to Gyangze.
Prints 52-106 Views in Tibet, mainly at Gyangze and including activities in the Tibetan school. Also Tibetan theatrical performance, 'exposition of the Gyangze carpet', hermit's cell.
Prints 107-123 'In quest of the Great Crested Grebe, Kala, 1925.' Views of birds' nests, flowers, etc.
Prints 124-130 Monastery at Dongtse, including wall paintings in Sengchen Lama's room.
Prints 131-180 Views at Gyangze, scenes in Tibetan school, the traveller Alexandra David-Neel at Gyangze in April 1924, dance at the Gyantze Jong, mountain scenery.
Prints 181-191 Lama dances at Tenzoling and Gyangze, 1926.
Prints 192-252 Miscellaneous portraits, scenes, Gyangze and other locations.
Prints 253-290 Mountain scenery and miscellaneous views and portraits.
Prints 291-302 Views at Lhasa.
Prints 303-327 Mountain scenery, mainly in Sikkim.
Prints 328-367 Hunting expedition with the Maharaja of Bhutan at Dewangiri.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003101837
040-003101926 - Is part of:
- Photo 743 : Frank Ludlow Collection: Photographs relating to the life and career of Frank Ludlow in India and Tibet. Photographer(s): Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5 : Frank Ludlow Collection: Album of views in Sikkim, Tibet and Bhutan. Photographer(s): Ludlow, Frank - Contains:
- Photo 743/5(1) : The road to the Jelap La. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(2) : View from Laoyap. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(3) : The road to the Jelap La. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(4) : Teesta River below Rangpo. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(5) : Teesta Bridge. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(6) : The Residency, Gangtok. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(7) : The Residency, Gangtok. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(8) : The road to the Jelap La. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(9) : The road to the Jelap La. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(10) : The road to the Jelap La. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(11) : The Residency, Gangtok. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(12) : The Maharajah of Sikkim. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(13) : View from Residency garden, Gangtok. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(14) : Changu Lake in winter. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(15) : Major Bailey aviary at Gangtok. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(16) : Crossing the Natu La. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(17) : Chomolarhi from the Natu La. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(18) : Chumpitang Dak Bungalow. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(19) : Crossing the Phari Plain in winter. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(20) : Dota waterfall in winter. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(21) : On the way to Changu. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(22) : The Residency, Gangtok, 1925. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 743/5(23) : Chomolarhi from above Gautsa. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 743/5(24) : Tuna Plain. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
Photo 743/5(25) : Phari Jong. Photographer: Ludlow, Frank
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- 032-003101837[0005]/040-003101926
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 743
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 215 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print - Start Date:
- 1920
- End Date:
- 1929
- Date Range:
- 1920s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 50 mm x 48 mm to 160 mm x 210 mm
- Source of Acquisition:
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Presented by Sir George Taylor, Bellhaven House, Dunbar, Lothian, July 1984 (file FL 4/D/2 part 3).
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Ludlow, Frank
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