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Call Number:

PH-00287

Collection Name:

Journal of a tour through Spiti to the frontier of Chinese Thibet, with photographic illustrations

Creator:

Egerton, Philip Henry

No. of Items:

37 items

Span Dates:

1864

Description:

Published work titled Journal of a tour through Spiti to the frontier of Chinese Thibet, with photographic illustrations, written and illustrated with photographs by Philip Henry Egerton, Deputy-Commissioner of Kangra. The book was published in London by Cundall, Downes, and Company, in 1864. The text is accompanied by 37 mounted albumen prints by Egerton.

964:0967:0001 Kangra Fort

964:0967:0002 Temple of Bhawun

964:0967:0003 Tuhseeldah’s Cutcherry

964:0967:0004 Dhurmsala - lower view

964:0967:0005 Goorkha soldiers and family

964:0967:0006 Dhurmsala - upper view

964:0967:0007 Dhurmsala church

964:0967:0008 Temple at Nugger

964:0967:0009 Koolloo man and wife

964:0967:0010 Raft of inflated skins

964:0967:0011 Twig suspension bridge

964:0967:0012 A Guddee family

964:0967:0013 The Hamta pass

964:0967:0014 Chota shigri

964:0967:0015 Shigri glacier - upper view

964:0967:0016 Rock on a pedestal of ice

964:0967:0017 Shigri glacier - lower view

964:0967:0018 Shigri glacier - from the river

964:0967:0019 Upper Spiti valley

964:0967:0020 Bed of the Parangto torrent

964:0967:0021 Khiebar

964:0967:0022 House in Spiti

964:0967:0023 Kee monastery

964:0967:0024 Dhunkur

964:0967:0025 A rich doctor, the Nono, his son, and a poor monk

964:0967:0026 Unmarried woman and girl of Spiti

964:0967:0027 Married woman of Spiti

964:0967:0028 Strolling musicians

964:0967:0029 Monks in procession

964:0967:0030 Monks in full dress

964:0967:0031 The Abbot of Dhunkur

964:0967:0032 A monk of Peen

964:0967:0033 The Choto Nono and wife

964:0967:0034 Bridge of rock

964:0967:0035 The Nono, wife and grandaughter

964:0967:0036 The Nono, wife and daughter

964:0967:0037 Map

Accession No(s):

964:0967:0001-0037; Gernsheim Collection. Inscribed: J. Montgomerie, 1866.

Location(s):

f DS 485 S74 E451 HRC-P (964:0967:0001-0037)
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