Photographs taken by the Survey of India Department, Photographic Office, of sketches by Sir Edward Law Durand while with the Afghan Boundary Commission
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The album contains 23 loose photographic reproductions (mounted on a board) of watercolour sketches and washes made by Sir Edward Law Durand while attached to the Afghan Boundary Commission between 1884 and 1886. There is also a handwritten list of Durand’s drawings (4 folios). Not all the phot...
Photographs taken by the Survey of India Department, Photographic Office, of sketches by Sir Edward Law Durand while with the Afghan Boundary Commission
Scope & Content:
The album contains 42 loose photographic reproductions (mounted on a board) of watercolour sketches and washes made by Sir Edward Law Durand while attached to the Afghan Boundary Commission between 1884 and 1886. There is also a printed list of photographs taken during the progress of the Afghan...
Photographs taken by the Survey of India Department, Photographic Office, of sketches by Sir Edward Law Durand while with the Afghan Boundary Commission
Scope & Content:
The album contains 28 loose photographic reproductions (mounted on a board) of watercolour sketches and washes made by Sir Edward Law Durand while attached to the Afghan Boundary Commission between 1884 and 1886. There is also a letter (fixed to the inside cover of the album) from Cuningham to M...
Photographs taken by the Survey of India Department, Photographic Office, of sketches by Sir Edward Law Durand while with the Afghan Boundary Commission
Scope & Content:
The album contains 27 loose photographic reproductions (mounted on a board) of watercolour sketches and washes made by Sir Edward Law Durand while attached to the Afghan Boundary Commission between 1884 and 1886. The following is a list of the captions with each photograph. Information in squar...
Seven sketches of various landscapes: a ruined palace, Ramnagar or Nerbudda, (dated 16th April 1866) view on the country road to Bhera Ghatt, Jubbulpore Saugor Residency (in colour) Fort Mackeson near Peshawar 3 unidentified colour sketches There is also an envelope and note, dated 12th October ...
Papers relating to Afghanistan and the Afghan Boundary Commission
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Photograph of Chirkari, sketch map of Afghanistan, and 10 illustrations taken from newspaper cuttings, at least one (perhaps all) from The Illustrated London News: The camp of the Afghan Boundary Commission near Tirpul, in the Valley of the Hari-Rud The Zulfikar Pass, on the Russo-Afghan Frontie...
The Country around Herat, projected from Major Holditch’s map
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Printed map taken from the supplement to The Illustrated London News, 2 May 1885, giving a birds-eye view of the country around Herat, Afghanistan, showing positions occupied by Russia