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Photo 920/1(26)
- Record Id:
- 041-003125653
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003125626
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026100107.0x00113f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 920/1(26)
- Title:
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The Choll Kul, Takla Makan desert south-east of Maralbashi. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
View looking across the lake towards the sands of the Taklamakan beyond. Caption note continues: 'This lake is ten miles long by 1-2 m. broad and is of fresh water. The dunes in the background are 300 ft. high. It was crossing the desert between here and the Khotan River that Sven Hedin's camels and all his men except one died of thirst.' Reproduced in Clarmont Skrine, 'Chinese Central Asia' (London, 1926, facing p. 192.
[Gelatin silver print, mounted on card with typescript caption, 299x184mm].
Subjects = deserts; lakes; landscape features; Skrine Collection
Location = China; Choll Kul; Taklamakan Shamo; Xinjiang
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003125626
040-003125627
041-003125653 - Is part of:
- Photo 920 : Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine Collection: Photographs relating to his career and travels in Central Asia and India. Photographer(s):…
Photo 920/1 : Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine Collection: Views of Kashgar, Khotan, Yarkand and Chinese Turkestan. Photographer(s): Skrine, Sir…
Photo 920/1(26) : The Choll Kul, Takla Makan desert south-east of Maralbashi. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival - Hierarchy:
- 032-003125626[0001]/040-003125627[0026]/041-003125653
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 920
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1922
- End Date:
- 1924
- Date Range:
- 1922-1924
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival