Sikkim Collection

Sikkim, Northern India - The Maharajah Maharani and suite
Sikkim - a landlocked Indian state located in the Himalayas - The Maharajah Maharani and suite. Date: circa 1910s

India Sikkim Teesta River ferry boat pre-1900

Sikkim Ferry on Teesta River, India

View near Rinchenpong, West Sikkim, India, entering the Chumbi Valley, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside

Street scene in Rhenock, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture

Waterfall near Gangtok, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture Lhasa

People on a wheel at Gangtok, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture

View of Changu Lake (aka Tsomgo, Tsongmo or Changgu Lake), a glacial lake in East Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British

Looking back on Nathu La Pass, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture

View from the top of Nathu La Pass, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to

Approaching Nathu La Pass, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture

Nathu La Pass, Sikkim, India, near Changu Lake, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to

Street scene in Gangtok, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture

View of Rangpo, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture Lhasa

Rangpo Copper Mine, Nathu La Pass, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to

People and huts in the snow, Gnatong, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to

120th Infantry on the top of Jelep La Pass in the snow, between Sikkim, India, and Tibet, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military

Jelep La Pass in the snow, between Sikkim, India, and Tibet, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan

Mail runners on Jelep La Pass in the snow, between Sikkim, India, and Tibet, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed

Gnatong, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture Lhasa, in 1904

View of Gnatong, Sikkim, India, in the snow, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture

Travelling through the snow, Jelep La Pass above Sedonchen approaching Gnatong, between Sikkim, India, and Tibet, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in

View of Gnatong, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture Lhasa

Slender bonnet bellflower, Codonopsis gracilis. Sikkim. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Noble rhubarb or Sikkim rhubarb, Rheum nobile. Illustration copied from a sketch by Joseph Dalton Hooker. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens

Sikkim larch, Larix griffithii, tree and cones. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Poster, Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation, with a map showing routes. 1958

Bhutia man with long pigtail - Darjeeling
A Bhutia man with long pigtail. The Bhutia are ethnic Tibetans who speak a Tibetan dialect. Their ancestors migrated from Tibet to Sikkim, Darjeeling

Lepcha (Sikkim), Nepalese and Bhutanese men

Bhutanese people at Sikkim, India. Date: circa 1890s

Bhutia Woman, Sikkim, India
A Woman from the ethnic Tibetan Bhutia tribe from Sikkim, a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. Date: circa 1908

Man of the Lepcha or Rong people, Sikkim, India
A man of the Lepcha or Rong people, also called Rongkup (the word Lepcha translates as " Children of the Rong" ) - the aboriginal people of Sikkim, India who number between 30, 000 and 50

Curio Dealer, Sikkim, India

Sikkim - Wall at Yadong, China
The Tibet / China / India frontier border amid the Himalayan Mountains. A wall of houses at Sikkim, Yatung (Yadong). Date: 1910s

A Bhutia Dancing Party - Tibet
A Bhutia Dancing Party. The Bhutia are ethnic Tibetans who speak a Tibetan dialect. Their ancestors migrated from Tibet to Sikkim, Darjeeling

A Bhutia Coolia. The Bhutia are ethnic Tibetans who speak a Tibetan dialect. Their ancestors migrated from Tibet to Sikkim, Darjeeling

India Darjeeling
General view of Darjeeling, on the Sikkim border, with the Himalayas beyond

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