IDNO

P.97543.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(Photos 213-230 were taken in and around Gangtok.)
219. “At Gangtok, 18.11.34 (Peggy); Lhakpa, Namjong, Samdup, Ludlow, Sherriff, FW”
See ww: Lhakpa, Namjong, Samdup, Ludlow, Sherriff
Posing in front of the cars.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

S Asia; India; Sikkim; Gangtok

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Lhakpa; Namjong; Samdup; Frank Ludlow; George Sherriff; Frederick Williamson

Photographer

Williamson, Margaret

Collector / Expedition

Date

18 November 1934

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The transcription of this album by Mark Turin and Sara Shneiderman was carried out with reference to Krystina Cech’s catalogue list alone. Alex Nadin has since revised their cataloguing by systematically matching their records to the images. Margaret Williamson’s handwritten captions for photographs have now been transcribed into the Inscription field, and Cech’s descriptions appear in the Description field. Correct entries for Place, Named Person and Other Nos. have also been entered by Alex Nadin. [Sudeshna Guha 29/10/2002]

Named Person: For information on Frank Ludlow see, Rank, M. 2003. Frank Ludlow and the English School in Tibet, 1923-1926. Asian Affairs, Vol 34, No.1 [Sudeshna Guha 20/11/2003]

Named Person: Samdup (wearing shorts in this image) is described in Margaret Williamson's book, 'Memoirs of a political officer's wife in Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan', London, Wisdom Publications, 1987, as Williamson's Head Manservant (p.129) who had been with him for twelve years (p.221). There are also three photographs of him in the book. He was present at Williamson's death in Lhasa on 17 November 1935. [Information by Dr Nicholas Keegan, Durham, JD 04/11/2020]