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John Norman Collie (1859-1942), Photographer
Himalayan Photographs: Nanga Parbat Expedition, 1895
John Norman Collie (1859-1942), Photographer Himalayan Photographs: Nanga Parbat Expedition, 1895 an album containting 40 photographs, mounted onto recto and verso of card album leaves, taken during Mummery's Nanga Parbat expedition, including 'In the Suez Canal', 'At Aden', 'Snow storm in Camp.', 'In Camp mending boots.', 'In Camp. (Bruce + Mummery)', 'Diamirai Nullah', 'Rakiot Nullah + Glacier', 'Mazeno peak. (22000 ft)', 'Glacier on Nanga Parbat', 'Camp in Diamirai Nullah', 'Rock peak (18000 ft) Diamirai Nullah', 'Looking north across Indus valley towards Gilgit.', 'Gonalo peak (22000 ft) (view from my tent door)', 'My tent in Rakiot Nullah', 'Nanga Parbat (27000 ft)', 'North face of Nanga Parbat', 'Looking down the Rakiot Nullah towards the Indus', 'Looking down the Diamirai Nullah.', 'South side of Diamirai Nullah.' and 'Looking eastwards from pass between the Diamirai and Gonalo Nullahs' all titled on mounts in Collie's hand, 10 with further annotations and captions, including the sites of first and second camps on the Diamir face of Nanga Parbat and highest point reached, 'x Point where highest camp was pitched. (route dotted lines).', 'Valley up which Mummery went + from which he never returned. Pass he was trying to get over (west side)' and 'The east side of pass Mummery was attempting when he was lost.' contact prints 4 x 3in. (10.1 x 7.6cm.) and similar 4° album, original half black morocco gilt, patterned endpapers, titled 'HIMALAYAN PHOTOGRAPHS' in gilt on upper board, inscribed 'G.H. Collie -- with best wishes from, N. Collie April. 1896.' on verso of first card leaf