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Gyantse Jong

Gyantse Jong

Item is a negative showing Gyanste Jong from a distance. Gyantse is also visible at the bottom lefthand side of the image.

Gyantse

Gyantse

Item is a negative showing a head on look of the small village of Gyantse. There is a road in the forefront of the image where three 90th Punjabi soldiers walk ahead of a Tibetan solider on the right bank of the road. There are mountains in the background.

My [Lieutenant/Colonel Parker's] quarters at Gyantse

My [Lieutenant/Colonel Parker's] quarters at Gyantse

Item is a negative showing a large building with several windows, a wide verandah, and two sets of staircases. There are two small field pieces at the foot of the staircase on the right left by the Younghusband expedition in 1906.

Phari Jong bazaar

Phari Jong bazaar

Item is a negative showing the Phari village bazaar marketplace. Mount Chumalabi can be seen in the background.

Phari

Phari

Item is a negative showing the village of Phari. There are mountains in the background.

Military Period

This file contains correspondence between Eric Parker and Charles Bell, the 13th Dalai Lama, and his wife Minnie Parker.

ref # 4-1-1

Langmann Family Photograph collection

  • 151
  • Collection
  • [186-?]-[191-?]

Collection consists of five albums of photos from Meiji period Japan including a few photos from Scotland, one album of photos from China, and two lacquer-framed photographs. It consists mostly of albumen hand-coloured Japanese photographs. These Japanese photographs belong to the genre known as souvenir photography or Yokohama photography. The subject of these photographs in this collection echoed those found in the Japanese ukiyo-e prints of the so-called “floating-world” of the late Edo Period, from around 1780 until the 1860s. The delicate hand colouring of the albumen silver prints is one of the characteristics of photographs of Japan from this period.

There were mainly two media to disseminate souvenir photos from Yokohama during Meiji period (1868 –1912): photo prints and lantern slides (see the James Davidson collection), but other materials were also used. These hand tinted photo prints were usually bound in albums with lacquer covers lavishly decorated in makie (蒔絵), a technique of applying adhesive metal such as gold and silver or colour powder in soft lacquer to create designs.

Tibetian Buddhist monks dancing

Tibetian Buddhist monks dancing

Image depicts several men, dressed in what appear to be Buddhist robes, dancing in a courtyard outside a large building. They carry scarves, which appear to be a part of this dance.

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