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91. Photo 1253/1(76)

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Photo 1253/1(76)
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'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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

92. Photo 1253/1(91)

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Photo 1253/1(91)
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‘Durbar in Sherpur Cantonments.’ A thin crowd of onlookers watches a British ceremonial display before a tent crowded with dignitaries. Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
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View of an open space of the cantonment; a group of people on the right and rows of troops in front of a large tent to the left. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1879. There is a marking 'Burke 269', lower left of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011. Stamped in black ink, ver...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

93. Photo 1253/1(56)

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Photo 1253/1(56)
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'The Family of the Dost.' The influence of Dost Mohammed, Amir of Afghanistan for four decades, towered over relations with the British. Up to his death in 1863, he forged a sense of Afghan unity whilst guiding a difficult path between British and Russian imperial expansionism and frequent provocations by both of them. Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
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View of a family posed on a carpet. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1879. There is a marking 'Burke', lower left of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT / JNO: BURKE LATE / BAKER & BURKE / ARTISTE PHOTOGRAPHER / PU...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

94. Photo 1253/1(58)

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Photo 1253/1(58)
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'Soldiers of the 72nd (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders) Regiment.' A heliograph team equipped with early Aldis lamps and signalling mirrors which were deployed for long-distance mountain-top to mountain-top communications back to Imperial India. Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
Scope & Content:
View of sixteen men in uniform posing with signalling devices such as mirrors, lamps, flags and telescopes. There are tents and a building in the background. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1879. There is a marking 'Burke 271', lower left of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 201...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

95. Photo 1253/1(5)

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Photo 1253/1(5)
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Shah-do-Shamshira Mosque was built in the 1920s on the site of one of Kabul’s first mosques, the Mosque of the King with Two Swords, named in honour of an early Muslim king who died fighting Hindu invaders. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon
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View from across a river of a Mosque on the right and a bridge on the left. Snow is on the ground. 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,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

96. Photo 1253/1(22)

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Photo 1253/1(22)
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The districts of Wazir Akbar Khan and Sherpur, home to all the NGOs and contractors, occupy the site of the former British fortress from the Second Anglo-Afghan War, ‘the Cantonment’. Glitzy, kitschy ‘poppy-palaces’, flung up in a hectic property boom after the land was illegally re-possessed from squatters, can command rents of $20,000 per week when leased out to Internationals. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
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View of a city district with snowy mountains in the distance. 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, chromogenic print on Fujicolor Cryst...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

97. Photo 1253/1(66)

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Photo 1253/1(66)
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'Khan of Lalpura and Followers with Political Officer.' At the back of this picture, hard to distinguish in his turban, is the British Political Officer Robert Warburton. With an Afghan mother and British father, and a fluent speaker of Pashto, he enjoyed a long, distinguished military career. Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
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View of a British Colonel sitting with a group of armed Afghan men. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1878. There is a marking 'Burke 57', lower left of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011 Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT / JNO: BURKE LATE / BAKER &...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

98. Photo 1253/1(74)

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Photo 1253/1(74)
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'Camp and Abattis At Sherpur. 5th Punjaub Infantry. 25th Dec 1879.' This picture was taken two days after one of the fiercest battles of the war. A force of 50,000 Afghans besieged and then attacked the cantonment and were repulsed by the defenders making special use of the new ‘Gatling’ machine guns. Why Burke didn’t photograph the aftermath is a mystery – more than 3,000 Afghan bodies lay on the battlefield. Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
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View of soldiers and artillery at cantonment in the snow. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1879. There is a marking 'Burke 190', lower right of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT / JNO: BURKE LATE / BAKER & BURKE...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

99. Photo 1253/1(97)

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Photo 1253/1(97)
Title:
‘Another view of the Camp.’ The British Cantonment at Sherpur waiting for an imminent attack by Afghan forces. Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
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View of a cantonment with men waiting at the perimeter in the snow. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1878-1880. There is a marking 'Burke 191', lower left of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT / JNO: BURKE LATE / BAKE...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

100. Photo 1253/1(101)

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Photo 1253/1(101)
Title:
‘The “Residency”. From outside of Bala Hissar.’ The Residency had been the British Mission in Kabul and its destruction and the killing of its staff provided the pretext for a full-scale British invasion. Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
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View of a burnt-out building along a fortress wall; there are three men standing on the roof. There is a marking 'Burke 178', lower left of the image. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1879. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT / J...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item