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Photo 1040(59)
- Record Id:
- 040-003164683
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003164624
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026372130.0x00026d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1040(59)
- Title:
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From Doran Pass. Photographer: Giles, George Michael James
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
Reproduced in W.S.A. Lockhart and R.G. Woodthorpe, 'The Gilgit Mission, 1885-86' (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1889), facing p. 314, there captioned, 'Crest of the Durah Pass.' '23rd September, camp above Shah Salim. - A start for the Durah Pass was made at 7 a.m., and the crest was reached at 9.45, some of the officers riding the whole way to the top...We...ascended the Durah Pass, and found it wonderfully easy. It is, as Aman-ul-Mulk before told me, the only practicable avenue into his country, and could rapidly be made fit for wheels. No European, unless perhaps a Russian in disguise, has ever visited the pass, McNair having seen it from a long way off only...On the actual crest there was no snow, although it stood in frozen waves in many places on the west declivity [seen in foreground of print].'
[Albumen print, 278x216mm].
Subjects = mountain scenery
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003164624
040-003164683 - Is part of:
- Photo 1040 : Album of 'Photographs, Gilgit, Chitral, Yassin, Mastuch, etc.' [Gilgit Mission]. Photographer(s): Giles, George Michael James
Photo 1040(59) : From Doran Pass. Photographer: Giles, George Michael James - Hierarchy:
- 032-003164624[0059]/040-003164683
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1040
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1885
- End Date:
- 1885
- Date Range:
- 23 Sep 1885
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Bound in Volume
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Giles, George Michael James, surgeon and entomologist, 1853-1916
- Subjects:
- Gilgit Mission, 1885-86
- Places:
- Central Asia, Asia