Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Indian and European figures walking or riding in carriages along the harbour. Steamships or troopships in the distance.
There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned so furiously that fire fighters even lost two of their fire engines. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
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View of vehicles and shipping containers; a reflection in a body of water is in the foreground. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, ...
Military transportation cart and escort of Indian soldiers, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
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Stereoscopic view, showing Indian soldiers posed with a bullock cart on a riverbank, with the stern of a river steamer in the background. Image copyrighted 1898, by the Stereo Travel Company. The 1898 may be an error, since all the other photographs in this series are copyrighted 1908.