[Group assembling for a hunt, Mathura] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group posing with their camels, on horseback, and spectators riding in howdahs on elephants in the background. In the same series on the Mathura Cup.
'Mackeson’s Bridge.' Long trains of pack animals carried all the British supplies from India through the passes into Afghanistan. Up to 40,000 camels were employed. In fact, so many were requisitioned from northern India that is thought that their loss set back economic development in the region by decades. Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
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View of a line of troops with camels moving through a valley. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1878. There is a marking 'Burke 35', lower right of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT / JNO: BURKE LATE / BAKER & BU...