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70 x 53 mm.

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78 x 49 mm.

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78 x 52 mm.

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70 x 95 mm. A forest scene.

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75 x 49 mm.

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51 x 75 mm.

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50 x 77 mm.

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51 x 78 mm. Three people on a path in a wood.

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47 x 74 mm.

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50 x 77 mm.

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51 x 52 mm.

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49 x 74 mm. A river with hills in the background.

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52 x 45 mm. A dog seated on a chair.

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94 x 71 mm. Three Indian women.

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208 x 151 mm. A view of the Shali Peaks and Snowy Range.

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296 x 243 mm. View of a waterfall cascading over a massive rock, with an Indian figure seated in the foreground. Bourne and Playfair remained at Prini for three days but, the weather being unfavourable, no photographs were taken. This picture is presumably of 'the pretty waterfall close by' which they came across while preparing to ascend the Humta Pass, (B.J.P., 24 December 1869, p. 613). Bourne no. 1440.

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240 x 290 mm. View looking out over the valley, with two figures posed beside the pine tree in the foreground and the Chini peaks beyond. Bourne stayed some time at Chini, varnishing and sorting his collection of negatives made in the preceding weeks (62 in number, in addition to small ones). He had agreed to meet Dr Playfair here (Y3022C/ 20, 27), but received a note stating that the doctor had hurt his ankle and therefore proceeded to Simla. Bourne no. 1509

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54 x 78 mm.

Scope and Contents 297 x 234 mm. One of Bourne's most famous photographs, taken at the top of the pass and looking down over the snow covered slopes below, with a line of porters struggling up the hill with their loads. The Spiti River can be seen in the valley in the far distance. For many years this picture held the record as the highest point at which a photograph had successfully been taken. Bourne, himself riding a yak, set off with his retinue of eighty porters from the village of Mani and camped for the...

Scope and Contents 243 x 294 mm. View looking along the sheer cliff face, to the side of which clings the narrow road (protected from the drop by a wooden fence) on the caravan route to Tibet. The cliffs are situated near Chini, a village near the Sutlej River some 70 miles ENE of Simla. The cliffs were first visited and photographed by Bourne in 1863, ‘In some places these precipitous walls are so stupendous as to stagger both the sense and the imagination. In the case of the Rogee Cliffs ... they are found...

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78 x 54 mm. Steps leading up to a porch, with flowers to each side, probably in Simla.

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52 x 53 mm. Four uniformed jampanis standing next to a jampan (wheeled sedan chair), probably in Simla.

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131 x 86 mm. A dog seated on the steps leading up to a building.

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61 x 62 mm. Seven Indians and two dogs standing in front of The Priory.