1998.131.392 (Film negative)
Raw Image
Evan Yorke Nepean
Frederick Spencer Chapman
July 31st 1936
Sir Basil Gould, Frederick Spencer Chapman, Brigadier Neame, Sidney Dagg
Gangtok Region
1998.131.392
61 x 92
Negative film nitrate
Donated 1994
Faith Spencer Chapman
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Evan Yorke Nepean
YN.3
SC.T.2.392
2001.35.396.37.1 2001.35.198.1
In Negative - 'YN 3' has been scratched into the bottom left hand corner of the negative [MS 23/03/2006]
Other Information - Dates: This image was probably taken close to Gangtok at the beginning of the Mission's journey to Lhasa. The Mission departed from Gangtok on July 31st 1936 and arrived in Karponang on the same day. The reference number 'YN 3' in the negative indicates that this was only the third image that Nepean had taken of the Mission [MS 23/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"The Mission en route to Lhasa"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.392.html>.
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