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

Catalogue reference: Photo 1083/13

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Photo 1083/13
Title
Bailey Collection: 'Tibet 1903-4. F.M.B. [volume] II.' Photographer(s): Bailey, Frederick Marshman.
Date
1904
Description

Red half-leather bound album measuring 360x275mm, 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 somewhat fragile, with cloth on the sides lifting and spine weak. Prints 1-18 of this numerical sequence are in Photo 1083/12. The album continues the documentation of the Younghusband Mission to Tibet from Photo 1083/12 and covers the period from the end of January 1904 (at Phari) up to the crossing of the Tsang-Po (Brahmaputra) at Chaksam on 25 July. It includes the battle at Guru on 31 March 1904, when over 600 Tibetans were killed, road making across the Tang La, scenes at the mission headquarters at Tuna, the actions at Samada on 6 April and at the Zamtung Gorge on 10 April and the entry into Gyangtse on 11 April and negotiations there with Chinese commissioners.

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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: 140 mm x 80 mm.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/4e40e35e-21af-4c2a-8e84-7f72632f7c6e/

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