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Himalaya Mountains

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

A Dandy, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2602
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Western woman being carried in 'a vehicle of locomotion in the Himalayas - a chair with poles', by four men on a mountain side in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Amateur watercolour in Northwest Himalaya (?by Cleghorn), mid 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/10/14
Scope and Contents

Amateur watercolour in Northwest Himalaya (?by Cleghorn) annotated "Right bank of Ravee opposite Decinal Bara Bansu" (river Ravi).

Dates: mid 19th century

Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn

 Fonds — Box Coll-1619, Box: Coll-1619 / E2015.23
Identifier: Coll-1619
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of lithographs, engravings, and woodcuts, notes and news-clippings, drawings, sketches, tracings and water-colours, and photographs of drawings. These feature trees, flowers and leaves, figures, animals and places in the Himalayas and across India... Indian life, forests and gardens.

Dates: 17th-19th century

Kinchinjanga [Kinchinjunga] from Birch Hill, Darjeeling, [India], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3159
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a view of Kinchinjanga [Kinchinjunga], a mountain in the Himalayas, from Birch Hill, Darjeeling, [India] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

My Best Burrhel, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3456
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man crouching in front of his tent with a dead Burrhel, a type of wild sheep, in the mountains of the [Himalayas] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Notebook No.79, 21 October 1839- February 1840

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/79
Scope and Contents This dark leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes in pencil and ink, field notes, thinking and 'to do' lists. There are many references to Darwin; 'Elements' published - and page 79 includes workings on edits. Index is in written in alphabetical order at the back of the notebook. The front and back covers are blank. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and...
Dates: 21 October 1839- February 1840

Notebook No.87, February 1841- June 1841

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/87
Scope and Contents This dark leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes which appear to be continuation of discussion on Touraine shells, notes of list of books to go to America, notes on correspondence sent and received, and notes on lectures. On p. 106 Lyell makes reference to Timothy Abbot Conrad's New York Geological Survey of 1840. The covers of the notebook are blank, the index is written on the last pages of the book. The following table of...
Dates: February 1841- June 1841

Notes on Cleghorn's Northwest Himalayan Journeys, 1862

 File
Identifier: Coll-1619/6/1-2
Scope and Contents

Two small notes on Cleghorn's Northwest Himalayan Journeys, dated 1862.

Dates: 1862