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Tibet--Younghusband ExpeditionAlbum of 88 photographs of Tibet, 1903-04 Folio (211 x 154mm.), 88 silver prints (77 x 102mm.), window mounted on card, mostly two images per page, manuscript captions to each photograph, maroon half morocco, some photographs faded, album rebacked Compiled by a British soldier attached to the British expedition to Tibet (1903-1904) led by Colonel Francis Younghusband (1863-1942). Manuscript captions: Rinchingong Village, Chumbi Valley; View in Sikkim; Sikkimese Bhutias near Jelap [i.e. Jelep La] Pass; Bazaar near Chumpethang [i.e. Chumathang]; 7th Mule Corps at Rinchingong; Chinese houses at Rinchingong; Bengal Sappers and Miners camp at Chumpethang [Chumathang]; village above Rinchingong; Fort Gnatong; convoy in the snow “Black & White”; Mule sheds at Gnatong; Breaking ice to water mules; Chorten, Chumbi Valley; Chinese arch, Chumbi Valley; Bridge over Ammo Chu, Chumbi Valley; Village, Chumbi Valley; Camp at Chumbi (2 images); Chinese wall at Yatung (2 images); Wall [at Yatung] being blown down; After demolition; Some Chinese Officials; Phari Fort, with Chumalhari sacred mountains of Tibet in distance; Frozen waterfall at Dhota; Chumalhari from West Bank of Kala Tso Lake; Marching out of Tuna before the Affair of Guru; Some Tibetan prisoners (2 images); Red Idol Gorge; Gyantse Fort; Col. Mah, Chinese General, coming to surrender Gyantse Fort to General Macdonald (2 images); A village in Gyantse Valley; Watching the Heliograph “Black & White”; Gyantse Valley; Transport crossing river; Gyantse town and monastery (2 images); Some monks in Gyantse Monastery; The most sacred Chorten in Tibet and Gyantse, 6 stories high; Gobse Jong [Dzong] (ruins); Nangartse Jong [Dzong]; Guard of Honour (32nd Sikh Pioneers) drawn up to receive Ta Lama; Colonel Younghusband receiving Tibetan officials at Nangartse; Crossing the Tsang-Po (R[iver] Bramahputra) (4 images); Swimming mules; Tibetan skin raft; Tibetan rafts, Chucksum Ferry (2 images); Buddhist ruins on road to Lhassa (2 images); Glacier and camp at Karo La 16,000 feet; the last bridge (over Kyro [Kyi] Chu); Monastery at Chucksum; Monastery near Lhassa (7,000 monks); The Potala in the distance; Tibetan noble’s house at Lhassa; The Potala (3 images); Lhassa School of Medicine; The oldest and most decrepit lady who came to receive the king’s bounty at Lhassa; the entrance to Lhassa from South; Beggars (2 images); Col. Younghusband’s chuprassie giving beggars one rupee (Tibetan); a half-tame kyang, property of the Dalai Lama; Entrance to Jai Kung, the big Lhassa temple; The “turquoise bridge”, so-called on account of the colour of the roof; Lhassa street scenes (2 images); A musician and dancing boys in Lhassa; a draper’s shop in Lhassa; Tibetan play at Lhalu, the Head Quarters of Mission (3 images); Tommy (7th Royal Fusiliers) buying cakes outside our camp at Lhassa; A butcher’s shop; Chinese Ambau coming into camp; 1st race meeting at Lhassa: the grand stand; the winning post; A Chinese tea shop; some transport officers; Tibetan wall. PROVENANCE:Lt. Col. Walter Lloyd Sinclair Meiklejohn, 106th Hazara Pioneers, September 1905, manuscript inscription to front endpaperCondition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The