Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Date of Photo

September - December 1936

Region

Gyantse > Wireless station

Accession number

1998.131.433

Image Dimensions

61 x 93

The wireless station of the British Mission in Gyantse. The table is covered with various pieces of equipment that were used to ensure that the Mission had telegraphic communications with India and beyond during their stay

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1994

Donated by

Faith Spencer Chapman

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Previous Catologue Number

YN.18

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

SC.T.2.433

This Image also appears in another collection

2001.35.396.44.4 2001.35.238.1

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Gyantse telegraph office" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.433.html>.

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