Turkestan Collection

Map of Soviet Central Asia - showing marked tour routes. Date: 1933

Princess Nirgidma visits Citroen Central Asian Expedition
Princess Palta (Nirgidma), Princess of the Torghuts, a nomadic people in Central Asia visits the Citroen Central Asian Anthropological Expedition (3rd Mission, led by Haardt) at Ouroumtsi

Mustafa Shokay, Khazak statesman and public figure
Mustafa Shokay (1890-1941), statesman, political activist, scholar and public figure, ideologist of the struggle for freedom and independence of the Common Turkestan. circa early 1940s

A Mappa in Kashgar, Turkestan
A Mappa (a local version of a Pekin cart) in front of the Chinese temple in Kashgar, Old City, Turkestan. This was the common conveyance of China, introduced into Turkestan by the Chinese. Date: 1932

A Painted Chinese Actor in Turkestan
A painted Chinese actor in a native morality play in Turkestan. Troops of the actors visited the country and were popular with Chinese officials and traders living and working there. Date: 1932

Young Turki girl of Kashgar
Colour Finlay Process photograph of a young Turki girl of Kashgar. The Sphere writes, " The young women of this race are usually attractive and slim, but their charms seldom survive marriage

Salt Lake of Kiuk Kiol, Karakasch, Turkestan
View of the Salt Lake of Kiuk Kiol in the Valley of Karakasch, Turkestan, Central Asia, with nomads and camels. Date: circa 1870

Uighurs dancing, Xinjiang, north west China
Uighurs performing their national dance, Xinjiang, north west China. Date: 1953

A Tatar woman from Tatarstan (Russia). Date: circa 1910

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, Turkistan, Kazakhstan
The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi at the ancient city Yasy (Turkistan/Turkestan), Kazakhstan - one of important commercial centres on the Silk Road, the trade route between Europe and China

Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover, The Invisible City
THE INVISIBLE CITY - Searching for a legendary city in Turkestan, American explorers are menaced by a plane of pure light. Date: 1932

The verandah of the Hall of Audience, Yarkund, Turkestan, with suitors, defendents or witnesses seated beneath it, awaiting the judgement of the local govenor or Bey

Russian Hunter-Scouts of the Turkestan Battalion. Date: 1904

Turkestan Dervishes
Dancing dervishes of eastern Turkestan (now Turkmenistan) Date: 1874

Kazakh national dance, Xinjiang, north west China
A woman performing a Kazakh national dance in Xinjiang (Sinkiang, Chinese Turkestan), north west China, with musicians playing in the background. Date: 1953

Men of Xinjiang, north west China
Men of Xinjiang (Sinkiang, Chinese Turkestan), north west China, admiring a portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong. Date: 1953

Tungus priest, Turkestani in front of a tent, and Circassian prince.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

A Desert Camel Caravan - Peking to Russian Turkestan
A Desert Camel Caravan travelling from Peking, China to Russian Turkestan (the territory of modern-day Tajikistand and Kazakhstan). Date: circa 1920s

The Silk Road - Camel Train in Soviet Central Asia, crossing the desert. Date: 1933

Turkestan - Camel Trader passes below an archway
The Golden Road to Turkestan. Tourist Guide to Turkestan - (then in) Soviet Central Asia. Date: 1933

Turkestan rose, rosa rugosa
Illustration of rosa rugosa (Turkestan rose) from Flora Japonica (1838) by Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866)

Parus bokharensis, turkestan tit

Podoces panderi, turkestan ground jay
Turkestan ground jay egg specimens

Kyrgyz Family outside their yurt - Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz Family (a Turkic people living primarily in Kyrgyzstan) - outside their Yurt. Date: circa 1910s

MAPS / ASIA 1908
Map of the countries surrounding India Date: 1908

Racial / Russia / Turkestan
Two women and a man from the Turkestan region, on the border with China Date: 19th century

Russians / Khiva 1873
A meeting between a Russian general and the Khan of Khiva to discuss peace terms. Khiva is in modern Uzbekistan. Date: 1873

Trade Route / Asia
The great trade route through Asia runs across Turkestan

Ladies from Turkestan using a Singer Sewing Machine

Colonel Ralph Ponsonby Watts (1892 - 1991)
Colonel Ralph Ponsonby Watts - a photograph taken during his journey from Kashmir through the Himalayan Mountain Pass to Kashgar in Chinese Turkestan

China Shache
Heavy traffic in the streets of this important trade centre in what is at this time Eastern Turkestan

Salt Lake of Kiuk Kiol, Karakasch, Turkestan
TURKESTAN: Kiuk Kiol salt lake in the Karakasch valley. Nomads camp with their camels, horses and sheep. Date: circa 1870

Pierre Gabriel Bonvalot
PIERRE GABRIEL BONVALOT French explorer, notably in central Asia and Siberia : discovered important ruins in Turkestan (1882)

Sven Hedin (Card)
SVEN ANDERS HEDIN Swedish explorer, notably in Turkestan and China, 1896-1897

Kirghiz Soldier 1916
Fantura Habdrulin, Moslem Russian soldier in the 9th Turkestan regiment, from the Kirghiz region of Central Asia, during World War One

Weaving Carpets Mary
Weaving carpets at Mary (formerly Merv) in Turkmenistan (formerly Turkestan)

Paper at Turkestan
Ppaper of the kind we know today is thought to have been invented in Turkestan in the 6th century : here it is being sold at Samarkand in present- day Uzbekistan

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