Y.M.C.A. room for soliders of the allied armies—formerly a notorious dive—on the busiest street of Peking, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
English soldiers' barracks, Rangoon. Publisher: American Mission Press, Rangoon
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Monochrome postcard, divided back. View looking across the lake towards the barracks, with the spires of the Signal Pagoda (left) and the Shwe Dagon Pagoda (right) on the skyline beyond.
'Gap Between Upper Bala-Hissar And Bala-Burj, Looking Toward Beni-Hissar.' The Bala Hissar is the citadel that straddles Kabul to this day. In Burke’s time it was part fortress, part palace. Home to a small town of courtiers and servants, it also housed the British Embassy forced on the Afghans after the Treaty of Gandamak. Photographer(s): Burke, John
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A view of a landscape with the Upper Bala Hissar Fortress and watchtower on the left and the ridge of the Sher Darwaza Mountian on the right. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1879. There is a marking 'Burke 219', lower left of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011 Stamped in bl...