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Ugyen Wangchuck, Thutob Namgyal, Ugyen Dorji, in Calcutta, 1907
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Visit to Calcutta: A group picture taken at Hastings House, Kolkata, during the visit in 1906 of Ugyen Wangchuck, the Trongsa Penlop of Bhutan, and Thutop Namgyel, the Chogyal of Sikkim.
Front row, seated from left to right: D.E. Holland, Ugyen Wangchuck, John Claude White, Thutop Namgyel and his consort Yeshe Drolma.
Standing from left to right: Bhutanese guard, Capt. Henry Hyslop, Ugyen Dorje, Lobsang Choden, Jerung Dewan, Burmiak Kazi, Bhutanese guard, Sikkimese guard.
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Photo by unidentified photographer.
Print from Fondation Alexandra David Neel, Digne.
White created a rich and detailed photographic account of the culture and scenery of the Himalayas during his travels through the region. John Falconer, curator of photographs at the British Library’s Oriental and India Office Collections described White's work as "probably one of the last, and certainly among the most impressive products of a tradition of quasi-amateur photography which had flourished among administrators and military personnel in India since the 1850s." The 2005 book In the Shadow of the Himalayas: Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim : a Photographic Record by John Claude White, 1883–1908 contains an anthology of Himalayan photos taken by White.
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