[Atab Muhammad Khan and suite, Peshawar.] Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of the Ambassador to Kabul and six officials. Original caption reads: 'Ata Mahomad Khan, Khawani'. No 1391 in the Bourne & Shepherd catalogue (although this is probably a Charles Shepherd or Shepherd & Robertson photograph). Duplicate at Photo 793 (4...
[Group of Pathan officials, Peshawar.] Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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Genre: Portrait Photography Original caption reads: 'Mohmund Arabs'. No 1392 in the Bourne & Shepherd catalogue (although this is probably a Charles Shepherd or Shepherd & Robertson photograph): 'Native Gentlemen (Pathans), Peshawur Valley'. Duplicate at Photo 793 (46). Subjects = eth...
The Fort of Jumrood, nr Peshawar, with the Khyber Pass. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the fort with three tribesmen in the foreground. Subjects = forts Location = Jamrud; North-West Frontier Province; Pakistan
Atta Mohamed Khan, Ambassador from[?] English Govt to Cabul. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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Genre: Portrait Photography The Ambassador is sitting centrally surrounded by six officials. Probably a Charles Shepherd or Shepherd & Robertson photograph. Duplicate at Photo 752/12 (7). Subjects = Indian office holders
An Indian Nautch [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of dancers and musicians performing before an audience in the courtyard of a palace. Women in purdah can be seen through bamboo screens at the top of the print. Photograph uncredited, but probably taken by Charles Shepherd. For another copy of this print,...
Group of moulders at work at the Kutb [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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Genre: Architectural Photography Posed group of Indian craftsmen making plaster of Paris moulds of stonework. The figures are grouped in front of the Hindu columns of the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque at the Qutb. The European figure in the centre is presumably Henry Hardy Cole. Subjects = archaeolo...
The Masjid-i-Kutb-ul-Islam. View of the Iron Pillar from the west [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the Iron Pillar, with the colonnade of the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque in the background. This is an excellent, clear view of the pillar, showing it before the masonry base was put in place after the excavations of 1871. Some of the inscriptions are als...