Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

1927 - 1928

Named Person

Lieutenant Sangster

Region

Gyantse > Fort

Accession number

BMH.E.70.1

Image Dimensions

110 x 85

Lt. Sangster washing his hair with his orderly in the background. Another British officer emerges from a room in the background. The shadow of the photographer can be seen in the lower part of the frame

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28

Other Information

In Negative - 'E 70' has been written on the bottom edge of the negative in black ink [MS 31/07/2006]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet E']: 'Sangster washing' [MS 04/05/2006]

Other Information - Description: [Extract from taped interview, Richard Blurton and Mrs Hopkinson] '70 - Captain Sangster washing his hair with his orderly in the background' [MS 29/07/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Lt. Sangster washing his hair in Gyantse fort" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.E.70.1.html>.

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