Roland Edgar Cooper - Photographs - Auction Lot

• Reference:GB 235 REC/4/2
• Dates of Creation:c.1880-1959
• Physical Description:
  1 box

• Scope and Content

  • 1. Photograph album of Himalayan views, people and plants. Undated [1913 onwards?]

  • 2. Photograph album of Himalayan views, people and plants. Undated [1913 onwards?]

  • 3. Photograph 'album' compiled by Cooper - "Photographs of the Robes worn in a Tibetan Priest Play and also some Movements of the Dance". Photographs by R.E. Cooper at Tongsa and Tashigong Djongs and others in the Eastern Himalaya, 1915.

  • 4. Album of photographs taken at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, all taken by Cooper except for two taken by Garden Photographer Robert Moyes Adam, with accompanying poetry [written by Cooper?], [c.1934-1950?]

  • 5. Envelope of family photographs, correspondence, genealogical information relating to Cooper / Wiedhofft family, newspaper clipping with family information and pencil drawing of unknown face. Includes two Himalayan photographs, one of Rhoomoo Lepcha, Sikkim, 1913 with Meconopsis paniculata, and the other of Rhododendron griffithianum, Bhutan, 1914.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Set of four photograph albums and an envelope of family photographs and correspondence purchased at auction in 2009 and stored together in one box.