Showing posts with label Khyber Pass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Khyber Pass. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 April 2023

Sphola Stupa, Khyber Pass

 

Sphola Stupa (a Buddhist monument) in the Khyber Pass, 1878. Photo by John Burke. Source


Monday, 27 February 2023

Khyber Pass and Jamrud

 

Khyber Pass and Jamrud. 19th century painting. Signed C R monogram.

Entrance to the Khyber Pass and Fort of Jamrud, 1878. A print from The Illustrated London News, (5 October 1878).


Khyber Pass from the Staff Camp, mid 20th century watercolor painting. Attrib. J.

Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Khyber Pass, 1919 (c)

 

Khyber Pass, 1919 (c). Photo by Randolph Bezzant Holmes. Source




Jamrud and entrance to the Khyber Pass, 1919. 




Thursday, 8 September 2022

Tuesday, 6 September 2022

Friday, 3 June 2022

Jamrud and the Khyber Pass, 1859

 


Jamrood and the Khyber Pass, 1859.

Artist:  John Frederick Cheetham.





Attock fort, 1859.

Artist : John Frederick Cheetham. Source
 
 

Monday, 23 May 2022

Pashtun tribesmen of the Khyber Pass, 1958

Pashtun tribesmen of the Khyber Pass, 1958. Photos by Dorothea Lange.

 






Photos of Ali Masjid, Khyber Pass, taken by Randolph Bezzant Holmes in 1919 (c)

Ali Masjid, Khyber Pass, 1905 (c). Photo by Holmes.




The Ali Masjid gorge, Khyber Pass, 1925 (c). Photo by Randolph Bezzant Holmes. Source



Gorge at Ali Masjid, Khyber Pass, 1919 (c). Photo by Randolph.B.Holmes.


Tuesday, 17 May 2022

A Pashtun gaurd of a caravan passing through Khyber Pass, 1902


A Pashtun gaurd of a caravan passing through Khyber Pass, 1902. Photo taken by Warren Crowe. Source






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Saturday, 7 May 2022

A Kochai looks so delighted as she was to ride the train at Landi Kotal in 1937, Khyber Pass

 


A Kochai looks so delighted as she was to ride the train at Landi Kotal in 1937, Khyber Pass. 

From an album compiled by Albert Chalcroft of the King's Regiment. Source



Tuesday, 26 April 2022

Group of Afridis in the Khyber Pass, 1880

Group of Afridis in the Khyber Pass, 1880.

Source: "Cassell's Illustrated History of the Russo-Turkish War" by Edmund Ollier (published in 1880).




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Tuesday, 28 September 2021

The impeding Afghan war : the meeting of Afridis in the Khyber Pass, 1878




The impeding Afghan war : the meeting of Afridis in the Khyber Pass, 1878 

From "Harper's Weekly" , New York, November 16, 1878. 

Artist: Richard Caton Woodville junior. 

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