Key Information

Photographer

Philip Neame

Collection

Hugh E. Richardson

Date of Photo

August 24th 1936

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

BMR.86.1.29.3

The British Mission party arriving in Lhasa in August 1936 being escorted into the city by an official reception party, which met them a couple of miles outside

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson

Related Collections

F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum

This Image also appears in another collection

2006.1.35.23

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "The British Mission arrives in Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.29.3.html>.

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