Near Michni Kandao [on the Khyber Railway]. Photographer: Randolph Bezzant Holmes
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View from the road below, looking up towards a locomotive entering a tunnel above With accompanying letterpress description: The railway is 26 miles long from Jamrud to Landi Khana. The gauge is 5' - 6". The maximum gradient up to Landi Kotal is 1 in 33 and the maximum grade down to Landi Khana...
The approach to Shiba [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the roadway towards the Zojo-ji Temple, the family temple of the Tokugawa clan, moved to the present site on the eastern side of Shiba-koen in 1598: 'The temple of Dzojoji stands back from the main street of Yedo some two or three hundred yard...
Kitagata No Amanome [Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the village street: 'The village pictured … was, some three years ago, some distance outside of the settlement; from which it was so completely cut off by the barracks of the English garrison stationed on the Bluff at Yokohama, that it c...