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Photographs and Negatives of Royal Asiatic Society's 150th Exhibitions, including some of attendees at the Opening Reception at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Two photographs. One is a studio portrait by Ernest Edwards of Burton in Turkish costume,dating from 1863. The second is of Burton in a Spanish shirt dated to around 1874.

Photographic negatives of maps.

Material concerned with the photographic collections held by the Society:

• List of the photographs within the Aurel Stein collections and the expeditions with which they were associated. Typed, 2 pieces, undated.
• 'Report on two rolls of film from the archives of the Royal Asiatic Society 10/12/98' by Ken Walton and Stuart Laidlaw describing the contents (Reginald Campbell Thompson's excavation in Nineveh) and the type and condition of the film. With this is a letter from J.E. Reade, British Museum, dated 18 February 1999, also giving details of the film, and an article sent by Ken Walton on the excavation.
• Programme for the visit to the Royal Asiatic Society by the Courtauld Institute of Art Summer School at which the photographs of Ajanta, Amaravati and Sanchi were investigated. The visit took place on 31 July 2008.
• Article and covering letter from Akiyoshi Tani, University of Tokyo, in which the Howell Collection of photographs were featured. The letter is dated 27 August 2013.
• Copy of the Hokkaido News, 7 December 2016 which carries an article about the Howell Collection of photographs.

Correspondence regarding the procurement of photographs taken by Noel Guina of the Prince's visit to the Society . 3 copies of emails and 2 letters.

Copy of a photograph showing the Dilettante Society at the Thatched House Club. This photo shows the room in which the Society held its first meeting.

Photograph of Sonomdorjin Dambadartaa, Mongolian Ambassador to Britain from The Times, 20 November 1969.

A photograph of a small detached figure. A note states this item was placed in a Museum at the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Photograph of Richard Burton in “Spanish shirt”, Trieste. The Rivett and Lovell Handlist contains the note - "Not the known one - another pose but taken at the same sitting c. 1874 - Mary S. Lovell".

Newspaper photograph of R. H. Mason, British ambassador to Mongolia from The Times, 28 July 1966.