Sherpur from Asmai. Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
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Genre: Landscape Photography Panoramic view composed of two joined prints, looking north-eastwards from the lower slopes of the Asmai Heights, across open ground towards the Sherpur Cantonment and the Bimaru Heights in the distance. With the fortified village of Deh Afghan in the foreground. Th...
Kabul from Seah Sung. Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
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Genre: Landscape Photography Panoramic view composed of two joined prints, looking westward from the heights of Siah Sung (probably from Fort Roberts), across the plain towards the city, with the Bala Hissar (citadel) on the left. Beyond the city are the Asmai Heights on the right and the Sher ...
N.E. of Sherpur. Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across Bimaru village and the plain, towards the mountains. Other copies at Photo 98 (26) and Photo 449/1 (15). Subjects = cantonments; military (general); military facilities
Fort Roberts and Kabul. Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
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Genre: Landscape Photography Panoramic view composed of two joined prints, looking in a westerly direction along the southern face of Fort Roberts (right-hand print), with the city of Kabul in the distance (left-hand print). The Bala Hissar (citadel) is prominent on the left, with the Sher Darw...
[Ruins of the] Residency, shewing the Gate and Scaffold. [Kabul]. Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of part of the ruined Residency building, looking towards a scaffold in the courtyard in the middleground. Other copies at Photo 98 (20) and Photo 449/1 (14). Subjects = Afghan architecture; Afghan architecture (Islamic); military (general); military camp...
Portion of Sherpur, shewing the Sher Dirwaza. Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking south-westwards down onto the cantonment and towards its southern perimeter wall. Other copies at Photo 98 (24) and Photo 449/1 (28). Subjects = cantonments; military (general); military campaigns; military facilities
Shewaki Minar [Minar-i-Chakri]. Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the stone tower known as the Minar-i-Chakri, which marks the pass at the top of Takht-i-Shah, to the south of Kabul not far from the village of Shewaki, with a group of soldiers posed at the base. The tower collapsed in 1988 from lack of maintenance. For...