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Mongolic gers or yurts with flags in Tibetan Plateau

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Title	Mongolic gers or yurts with flags in Tibetan Plateau
Part of Set	Harrison Forman Collection - Tibet
Date of Photograph	1937
Photographer's Note	China: 2 - '37
Photographer	Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Description	Possibly in Gansu province or Qinghai province. Caption from Harrison Forman's book Changing China: The Mongol yurt. Sheets of thick felt cover a framework of latticed slats secured with criss-crossing horsehair ropes held taut by heavy stones.
Source of Descriptive Information	Forman, H. (1948). Changing China. New York: Crown Publishers.
Subject TGM	Yurts Flags Tents
Subject LC	Tibet, Plateau of
Continent	Asia
Country	China
Geographic Feature	Qing Zang Gaoyuan (plateau)
Type	Image
Original Collection	Harrison Forman Collection
Original Item Size	35mm
Original Item Medium	Black-and-white negatives; Cellulose nitrate film
Original Item Location	Forman Nitrate Negatives, Box 21
Provenance	Gift of Sandra Carlyle Forman, 1987
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital ID	fr208938
Date Digitized	2011
Digital Collection	Tibet - From the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library
Digital Format	Image/jpg
Project Name	NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images
Part of	American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive