Clip drum and Engine for Incline at Lahore. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Group of four Europeans sitting on a locomotive specially adapted for operating a rope-worked incline. The steam engine drives a drum round which steel rope is wound. The ascending and descending cars are attached to this rope. This view was probably taken at railway wo...
Bhisties at Old Chaman. Photographer: Bremner, Frederick
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Settlement of water-carriers, with men drawing water from the pool in the foreground and filling mussocks slung across the backs of bullocks. Probably photographed at a railway construction camp. Other copies of this photograph at Photo 578/4 (85) and Photo 932...
Dance in 'Fra Diavolo' [Quetta]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Dance scene with woman (Mrs MacGowan) and two men (Saulez and Read RA). Subjects = amateur theatricals; social life; theatricals Location = Balochistan; Pakistan; Quetta
Chiltan Mountain from bank of Siriab Lora. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography General river scene with mountain range in the distance, presumably at Sar-i-ab, a few miles south of Quetta. Duplicate at Photo 481/5 (7). Subjects = river scenes Location = Balochistan; Pakistan; Sar-i-ab
[Indian soldiers on parade, probably at Chaman frontier fort.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography Platoon of soldiers standing to attention in a small, unidentified frontier fort, presumably at Chaman (compare print 23). Duplicate at Photo 481/1 (62). Subjects = forts; frontier posts; Indian Army; military (general); military facilities Location = Balochista...