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Container Reference (shelfmark) Maps 51850/10 Language Not applicable Subject Bridges

1. Maps 51850/10(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(29)
Title:
[Bridge over the Kabul River.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View looking along the river towards the wooden pile bridge built just to the north of Fort Ibrahim Khan, on the road linking the Sherpur Cantonment and Siah Sang. For plans of the structure, see accompanying plan no. 3a, 'Bridge over Cabul River at Fort Ibrahim Khan.' Ot...
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Map Collections
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Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

2. Maps 51850/10(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(30)
Title:
[Bridge over the Kabul River.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography A slightly more distant view of the bridge seen in print 29, looking downstream towards Lataband, with another bridge in the foreground. Lataband, a pass in the Karkacha Hill some 19 miles from Kabul, was the site of a fortified post during the Afghan War. For another cop...
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Map Collections
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Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

3. Maps 51850/10(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(44)
Title:
[Bridge over the Kabul River.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View looking along the river towards the wooden bridge, the same structure also seen in prints 29-30. Reproduced in Francis Gordon Cardew (et al.), 'The Second Afghan War 1878-80. Abridged official account' (London, 1908), facing p. 394, and there captioned, 'The 'Pul-i-...
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Map Collections
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Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

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