Dormitories in 'Potala' or 'summer palace complex' in Jehol, now Chengde

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Title	Dormitories in 'Potala' or 'summer palace complex' in Jehol, now Chengde
Part of Set	Harrison Forman Collection - Tibet
Date of Photograph	Between 1932 and 1933
Photographer's Note	Tibet: Jehol
Photographer	Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Description	'. . .here the path wound between two bigger stone houses, each with five chortens on the roof. They had been the dormitories and living-quarters of the eight hundred lamas who in the time of Ch'ien-lung served the Potala.' (Jehol: city of emperors). The city of Jehol is now known as Chengde and in 1956, the Jehol province became part of Hebei province. The two largest temples at Chengde are modeled after the Potala in Lhasa, Tibet and the Trashihunpo monastery at Xigaze.
Source of Descriptive Information	Hedin, S. (1933). Jehol: city of emperors. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. (p. 20).; The city of Jehol is now known as Chengde and in 1956, the Jehol province became part of Hebei province. The two largest temples at Chengde are modeled after the Potala in Lhasa, Tibet and the Trashihunpo monastery at Xigaze.
Subject TGM	Dormitories Architecture Architectural elements Monasteries
Continent	Asia
Country	China
State/Province	Hebei (province)
City/Place	Chengde
Type	Image
Original Collection	Harrison Forman Collection
Original Item Size	35 mm
Original Item Medium	Black-and-white negatives; Cellulose nitrate film
Original Item Location	Forman Nitrate Negatives, Box 10
Original Item ID	Roll 296
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	fr204698
Date Digitized	2007
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

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