Finding aid for the Edward Francis Chapman photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar,
1873-1874
Beth Ann Guynn
Descriptive Summary
Title: Edward Francis Chapman photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar
Date (inclusive): 1873-1874
Number: 2017.R.16
Creator/Collector:
Chapman, Edward Francis,
1840-1926
Physical Description:
2 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The album of 90 photographs documents
the information gathering mission from Leh, India to Yarkand (Shache), China led by Sir T.
D. Forsyth in 1873. The photographs portray the southern branch of the Silk Road and its
routes, and are the first photographic record made of the indigenous inhabitants of Chinese
Turkistan.
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Biographical / Historical
Edward Francis Chapman (1840-1926) was commissioned into the Bengal Artillery (later Royal
Artillery) in 1858. He saw service in Abyssinia (Ethiopia), Arogee, and Magdala (Amba
Mariam) before accompanying Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth on his six-month mission to Yarkand
(Shache) in 1873. Prior to their departure, Chapman took a compressed course in photography
at the Bourne & Shepherd studio in Shimla, India. Chapman rose through the military,
becoming Commander-in-Chief of India in 1881 and its Quarter-master General in 1885. In
1896, he achieved the rank of general and was made Commander Scottish District. He was
awarded Knight Commander of the order of the Bath (KCB) in 1905. Chapman authored several
books on military tactics and military history.
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
Preferred Citation
Edward Francis Chapman Photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar, 1873-1874, The Getty Research
Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2017.R.16.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2017r16
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired in 2017.
Processing Information
The finding aid was written by Beth Ann Guynn in 2018.
Digitized Material
Digitized by the repository in 2018. The images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2017r16
Scope and Content of Collection
The album of 90 albumen photographs documents the information gathering mission from Leh,
India to Yarkand (Shache) China led by Sir T. D. Forsyth in 1873 that was instigated by a
request from Yakup Beg, Amir of Yarkand and Kashgar, to establish a relationship with
British India. The photographs document the southern branch of the Silk Road and its routes,
and are the first photographic record of the indigenous inhabitants of Chinese
Turkistan.
Forty-five of Chapman's photographs were used to illustrate T. D. Forsyth's
Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 (1875).
Ninety photographs are adhered to 89 mounts. English captions are written on the mounts
below the images. The photographs are numbered 1-97 sequentially near the bottom of their
mounts, with some numbers lacking: 3; 4; 25; 66; 73; 75; 80; and 90. Some photographs are
numbered in the negative; these numbers do not correspond to the numbers on the mounts.
Arrangement
Arranged in a single series:
Series I. Edward Francis Chapman
Photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar, 1873-1874.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Topics
Indigenous peoples -- Asia, Central
Subjects - Places
Silk Road -- Description and travel
Shache (China) -- Description and travel
Kashi (China) -- Description and travel
Asia, Central -- Description and travel
Genres and Forms of Material
Albumen prints -- China -- 19th century
Photographs, Original
Contributors
Chapman, Edward Francis,
1840-1926
Series I.
Edward Francis Chapman photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar,
1873-1874
Edward Francis Chapman photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar, 1873-1874 (digitized
version)
Scope and Content Note
Titles are derived from captions written on mounts.
Arrangement
Arranged by numbers written on mounts.
box 1
2017.R.16-1
Camp Scene, Kashmir,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 1.
box 1
2017.R.16-2
Camp in the Nuseem Bágh, Kashmir,
1873 August
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 2. Numbered in negative: 15 (?)
box 1
2017.R.16-3
Camp Kargil in Ladak,
1873 September
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: 5. Numbered in negative: 9. IX.
box 1
2017.R.16-4
Lama Yúrú - Buddhist Monastery & Chortens,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 6. The photograph is marked off in a grid as if it were to be
used for a painting guide.
box 1
2017.R.16-5
Camp Nimmoo in Ladak,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 7. Numbered in negative: XVIII; 18.
box 1
2017.R.16-6
Tartar Women at Nimmoo in Ladak,
1873 September
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 8.
box 1
2017.R.16-7
Leh, the Capital of Ladak - View of the Bazaar & Palace,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount (in pencil): No 9? Numbered in negative: XXV.
box 1
2017.R.16-8
Leh, the Capital of Ladak, Street View,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
No. 10. Numbered in negative: XVIII.
box 1
2017.R.16-9
Leh, the Capital of Ladak - View from Joint Commissioner's
Garden,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 11.
box 1
2017.R.16-10
The Indus Valley from Leh,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 12. Caption continues: Elev. 11,500 ft. / View from Joint
Commissioner's garden.
box 1
2017.R.16-11
The Ex-raja of Ladak and Family,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 13. Mount contains two copies of the same image (different
exposures).
box 1
2017.R.16-12
Kolón,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Group portrait of four seated men and a boy. Numbers are written below the three
central figures. The caption continues: 1. Kolón. Head of the family entitled by
treaty / to conduct a caravan every third year / from Kashmir territory to Lhassa, the
capital of the Grand Lamas. / 2. Heera Munshi of Ladak. / 3. Kolón's son. Numbered on
mount: No. 14.
box 1
2017.R.16-13
Shémurs of Ladak, Group of Ladies Taken at Leh,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: 15.
box 1
2017.R.16-14
Professional Dancers at Leh,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 16.
box 1
2017.R.16-15
The Nubra Valley from Panamik, Looking S.E.,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues: Buddhist chortens in the foreground. Numbered on mount: No.
17.
box 1
2017.R.16-16
Buddhist Temple at Panamik,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Pakpa, Chmigré Zik / 4. Dekhua Karpo (Goddess). Numbered on mount: No. 18.
box 1
2017.R.16-17
Coming into Camp, Laghar in the Nuba Valley,
1873 October 4th
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 19.
box 1
2017.R.16-18
Heads of Oves Ammon, Etc. Shot by Captain Molloy Joint Commissioner of
Ladak,
1873
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 20. Depicted are the heads and horns of several argali or
mountain sheep (species ovis ammon).
box 1
2017.R.16-19
Crossing the Sassér Pass,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues: Breakfast / at Took Aylak. Elevation 16,300 ft. Numbered on mount:
No. 21.
box 1
2017.R.16-20
Camp at Shahidulla Khwoja,
1873 October 22nd
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues: ...the frontier / outpost of Yarkund Territory towards Kashmir.
Numbered on mount: No. 22. Numbered in negative: XXXV; 35.
box 1
2017.R.16-21
Shah-i-dulla-Khwoja,
1873 October
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues: Camp at the frontier outpost of HH the Maharaja of Jummoo &
Kashmir. Numbered on mount: No. 23. Numbered in negative: XXII.
box 1
2017.R.16-22
Men of the Pakpoo Tribe Living in the Valleys Bordering that of the Tisnáf
River,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 24.
box 1
2017.R.16-23
Group, Natives of Kanguthik,
1873 November
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 26. Numbered in negative: XXXVII.
box 1
2017.R.16-24
Yuz bashi Zureef,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Three seated men with numbers written on the mount below them. Caption continues: 1.
Yuz bashi Zureef (commander of 100 men) / 2. Tash Khwoja (confidential attendant)
Máhram / 3. Mwiza Yakoob (Umva). This is followed by a lengthy description of the
official status of the three men. Numbered on mount: No. 27. Numbered in negative:
XXXVIII; 38.
box 1
2017.R.16-25
Dastankhwan at Kargalik,
1873 November 3
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 28. Numbered in negative: XLI.
box 1
2017.R.16-26
Street Hawkers in the Square of the Mess Room of the British Embassy in
Yarkund,
1873 November
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 29. Numbered in negative: XXXIX.
box 1
2017.R.16-27
Street Hawkers, Yarkund II,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 30. Number in negative is cut off.
box 1
2017.R.16-28
Street Hawkers, Yarkund III,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 31. Numbered in negative: XCVIII.
box 1
2017.R.16-29
Street Hawkers, Yarkund IV,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 32. Numbered in negative: CXIV.
box 1
2017.R.16-30
Snuff & Tobacco Shop, Yarkund,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 33. Numbered in negative: CXI.
box 1
2017.R.16-31
Cleaning Flour; Oil Sellers,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 34. Numbered in negative: CXV.
box 1
2017.R.16-32
Yaghach-chi - the Carpenter,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 35.
box 1
2017.R.16-33
The Knife Grinder,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues: In 1869 Kulhik visited Bombay with the / pilgrims proceeding to
Mecca; when in Bombay / he observed a knife grinding machine and / returning to
Yarkund in 1871 he constructed / the machine from which this photograph / is taken.
Numbered on mount: No. 36.
box 1
2017.R.16-34
Verandah of Interior Court Yard of the Unda of the Dadkhwah of Yarkund
Showing the State Audience,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 37. Numbered in negative: XLIV.
box 1
2017.R.16-35
Guard of the Artillery Sirbaz and Group of Officers,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues: ..assembled in the court yard of the Unda of the Dadkhwah of
Yarkund. Numbered on mount: No. 38. Numbered in negative: XLIII.
box 1
2017.R.16-36
Soldiers from Aksu,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 39.
box 1
2017.R.16-37
Soldiers from Kuchar,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 40.
box 1
2017.R.16-38
Soldiers from Kashgar,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 41.
box 1
2017.R.16-39
Soldiers (Kashgaris),
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 42. Numbered in negative: CIX.
box 1
2017.R.16-40
Soldiers,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues: No. 1. from Kuchar / No. 2. from Aksu / No. 3. from Khoten.
Numbered on mount: No. 43. Numbered in negative: CV.
box 1
2017.R.16-41
Mir z. Shub with the Tom-tom; 2 Imgaui Players on Long Horns,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 44. Numbered in negative: CII.
box 1
2017.R.16-42
1 & 2. Instrument Players of Yarkund; 3. A Native of Yarkund,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 45. Numbered in negative: CII.
box 1
2017.R.16-43
Sikh Traders in Yarkund,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 46.
box 1
2017.R.16-44
Baltistanis from near S'kandó, Resident in Yarkund,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 47. Numbered in negative: LXXI[_].
box 1
2017.R.16-45
Tunganis, Resident in Yarkund,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 48. Numbered in negative: CIV.
box 1
2017.R.16-46
Yarkundis,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 49. Numbered in negative: XCIX.
box 2
2017.R.16-47
Yarkundis, Specimen of Goitre,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 50. Numbered in negative: CI.
box 2
2017.R.16-48
Hospital, British Embassy in Yarkund,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 51.
box 2
2017.R.16-49
A. Doulán from the Marlbashí,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 52.
box 2
2017.R.16-50
The Fort of Yangi Hissar,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 53. Numbered in negative: LXXX.
box 2
2017.R.16-51
The Panir Mountains from Yangi Hissar and the Tagharma Peak,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 54. Numbered in negative: LXXIX.
box 2
2017.R.16-52
Guard of Houm under Paujsad Khal,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues: Mahomet (Bahatun Batcha) Seiū ōne (?) / Meet the Envoy from Yangi
Hissar. Numbered on mount: No. 55. Numbered in negative: LXVI; 46.
box 2
2017.R.16-53
Kirghiz Felt (Akoé) Occupied by Officers of the Mission at Yangi
Hissar,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 56. Numbered in negative: LXV; 4.
box 2
2017.R.16-54
[Four Vendors],
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Four men, each with a number written on the mount below them. Caption:1. Saboon-chi -
Soap dealer; 2. Haka-baud - seller of tape / 3. Yaghchi - oil seller / 4. [____] -
Sweet meat seller. Numbered on mount: No. 57. Numbered in negative: LXXX.
box 2
2017.R.16-55
Coppersmiths Manufacturing Water Vessels,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 58.
box 2
2017.R.16-56
Retail Dealers, Yangi Hissar,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Three men with numbers written on mount below them. Caption continues: 1. Boat maker
- Moza-dos / 2. Bread seller - Naud-paz / 3. Cotton cleaner. Numbered on mount: No.
59. Numbered in negative: LXXXI.
box 2
2017.R.16-57
Snuff Seller,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 60.
box 2
2017.R.16-58
The Rummul Man (Fortune-teller),
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 61. Numbered in negative: LXXXIII.
box 2
2017.R.16-59
Dervishes - Professional Beggars,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 62.
box 2
2017.R.16-60
Saddle-maker,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 63. Numbered in negative: 6.
box 2
2017.R.16-61
The Forge,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 64. Numbered in negative: LXVII.
box 2
2017.R.16-62
Silk Reeling,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 65.
box 2
2017.R.16-63
Mādāk Khana - Opium Smokers,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 67. Number in negative is cropped and not legible.
box 2
2017.R.16-64
Andijani and Child by a Yarkund Woman,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 68.
box 2
2017.R.16-64
Cradle Scene, Yangzi Hissar,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 69.
box 2
2017.R.16-66
Children & Toy,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 70.
box 2
2017.R.16-67
Presents Made to HH the Amir of Kashghar in the Name of HM the Queen and HE
the Viceroy,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 71. Numbered in negative: XLVIII; 48.
box 2
2017.R.16-68
Group of Stuffed Animals Presented to the Amir,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 72.
box 2
2017.R.16-69
Yuzbashi, Panjabahi & Dahbahi, II,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues: Sitting at ease. Numbered on mount: No. 74. Numbered in negative:
XCIII.
box 2
2017.R.16-70
Tinigani Troops of the Amir, I,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 76. Numbered in negative: LII.
box 2
2017.R.16-71
Tinigani Troops of the Amir, II,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 77. Numbered in negative: LI.
box 2
2017.R.16-72
Tinigani Troops of the Amir,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 78. Numbered in negative: LIII.
box 2
2017.R.16-73
Oves Poli,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Two stuffed Marco Polo sheep (ovis ammon polii, a subspecies of argali sheep).
Numbered on mount: No. 79. Numbered in negative: LVI.
box 2
2017.R.16-74
Present of Game and Fruit in Kachighar,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 81. Numbered in negative: LX; 60.
box 2
2017.R.16-75
Female Patients Attending the Embassy Hospital,
1874 January
Scope and Content Note
Five women seated on a rug, with numbers written below them on the mount. Caption
reads: Group. Female patients attending / the Embassy Hospital, January 1874. / No. 4.
A married woman of the Kirghiz (i.e. Kyrgyz). Numbered on mount: No. 82. Numbered in
negative: LXVII; 67.
box 2
2017.R.16-
Patients Attending the Embassy Hospital,
1874 January
Scope and Content Note
Caption: Group. Patients attending the Embassy Hospital, January 1874. Numbered on
mount: No. 83. Numbered in negative: LXVIII.
box 2
2017.R.16-77
[Two Men Seated on a Carpet],
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Caption; No. 1 A Nogai from Omsk, a soldier in the service / of the Amir, born of
mixed parentage, his father / being a Russian and his mother a native of / Omsk. / No.
2. A native of the district of Sirikúl- Pamir. Numbered on mount: No. 84. Numbered in
negative: LXI.
box 2
2017.R.16-78
Bokhara and Khokandi Merchants,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 85. Numbered in negative: LXIX.
box 2
2017.R.16-79
Khokandi Merchants,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 86. Numbered in negative: LVIII.
box 2
2017.R.16-80
Party Deputed w. Kabal,
1874 January 1
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 87. Numbered in negative: LVII; 57.
box 2
2017.R.16-81
Shrine of Sultan Satuk Bogza Khan at Antūsh in the N. of Kashghar,
I,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 88. Numbered in negative: LXXII; 57.
box 2
2017.R.16-82
Shrine of Sultan Satuk Bogza Khan, II,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 89. Numbered in negative: LXXIII.
box 2
2017.R.16-83
From Yangi-Jar Looking South,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 91. Numbered in negative: LXXIV.
box 2
2017.R.16-84
The Krighiz of Jiggur Matti and Bash Sugún in the Jian Shín,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 92. Numbered in negative: LXXI.
box 2
2017.R.16-85
Group at Kalti Aylak in the Antūsh District,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 93. Number in negative is cut off.
box 2
2017.R.16-86
Moosa Khwoja, Son of the Hakim of Antūsh, with Hawks,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 94. Numbered in negative: LXXVI.
box 2
2017.R.16-87
[Four Kneeling Men],
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 95.
box 2
2017.R.16-88
Ressaidar Mahomed Afzal Khan of the 11th Bengal Lancers,
1873 0r 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 96.
box 2
2017.R.16-89
Kareem, Assistt. to Munshi; Mir Munshi Faiz Buksh,
1873 or 1874
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on mount: No. 97.
