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FRITH SERIES and others

Northern India, the borders of Tibet, the Himalayas and Angkor Wat, 1860s-80s

Thirteen albumen prints, each approx. 6¼ x 8 in., six titled and numbered in the negatives, eight with photographer's blindstamp Frith Series on recto, each inscribed in pencil in a later hand on verso, seven matted; with three albumen prints, one numbered in the negative, one mounted on blue card, titled in pencil on mount, matted. (16)

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Titles where given are as follows: 'Manirung Range, Dunkar', 'Village in Kulo', 'Natives of Spiti', 'In the Scinde Valley', 'Head of Kulu Valley, Kutang Pass', 'Head of Kulu Valley'; other images include the Bridge of Shops, Cashmere; a Yak in the Himalayas; village people of Kibber; village near Minalee, Kulu; Temple at Mangloar, Kulu; Bridge on the Margual Canal.

Including two group portraits of Tibetan monks in traditional dress and one interior view of the Principal Gallery in Angkor Wat.

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