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Bailey Collection: 'Tibet 1903-4. F.M.B. [volume] I.' Photographer(s): Bailey, Frederick...

Catalogue reference: Photo 1083/12

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Photo 1083/12
Title
Bailey Collection: 'Tibet 1903-4. F.M.B. [volume] I.' Photographer(s): Bailey, Frederick Marshman.
Date
1903-1904
Description

Red half-leather bound album measuring 295x245mm, containing snapshots mostly mounted four to a page, with captions written in pencil beneath. Title as above stamped in gilt on front cover. The album binding is in very poor condition, with boards detached, most of the pages loose and cloth lifting from sides. The album contains two numerical sequences, prints 1-224 and 1-18. This second series is in fact part of the album Photo 1083/12, which starts at print 19. The album documents the progress of the Younghusband Mission to Tibet, from the embarkation of the 32nd Sikh Pioneers at Sahibganj in March 1903 to the arrival at Phari in January 1904. Much of the album is devoted to a record of camp life at Khamba Dzong, where the mission was based for several months.

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
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Immediate source of acquisition
Collection originally placed on permanent loan by Mrs Irma Bailey, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel F.M. Bailey, and bequeathed to India Office Library and Records on her death in 1988.
Physical condition
Dimensions: 105 mm x 60 mm.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/0bd00db0-b17e-4b42-b533-dd5862ca7a09/

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Bailey Collection: 'Tibet 1903-4. F.M.B. [volume] I.' Photographer(s): Bailey, Frederick Marshman.