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Title
Hill village with tiered houses, Chamba, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
“Village among the hills showing the houses built on top of each other. [Kiling?] village [Fahloul?]”. Landscape showing tiered houses on a hillside. This village is in the region of Dalhouise in the Punjab and sits in the Dhauladhar mountain range of the Himalayas. Chamba was an independent princely state and came under British influence in 1848. It now forms part of Himachal Pradesh.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 19 x 14.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75646920-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78812
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75646920-1.jpg
Subject
Landscapes (environments)
Mountains
Villages
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Asia
Himachal Pradesh
India
Source
Acc.7548/F/7 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75646918 [File]
Relation
Scrap Album", Punjab, ca.1900
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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