![[Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim, seated, three-quarter length portrait, facing left]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/19/hope-cooke-queen-of-sikkim-seated-three-quarter-length-portrait-facing-left-a0a2b2-1600.jpg)
[Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim, seated, three-quarter length portrait, facing left]
Summary
Title devised by Library staff.
Date from related slide: LC-KAN05-072.
Slide used for the presentation: "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Webcast available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4912
Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress).
Also represented in LOT 14034-1, pg. no. 005 (color reference copy).
Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).
Tags
Date
01/01/1971
Contributors
Kandell, Alice S., photographer
Location
Nanga, 27.53333, 88.61667
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.
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