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11. Maps 51850/10(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(9)
Title:
[Noonday gun, Kabul.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography Close view of a field gun, presumably in the Sherpur Cantonment. For another copy, see APAC Photo 197 (9).
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

12. Maps 51850/10(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(24)
Title:
[Bala Gorge, Kabul.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography Panoramic view composed of two joined prints, looking along the ridge towards blockhouses. These appear to be the fortified positions, plans and elevations of which are in the accompanying sheet 17, 'Sherpur Cantonments Blockhouse No. 6 in the gorge between the two Bemaru...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

13. Maps 51850/10(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(35)
Title:
[Lahore Gate, Kabul.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography General view looking along the roadway towards the somewhat dilapidated Lahore Gateway into the city, situated to the north of the Bala Hissar. Other copies of this photograph can be found at APAC Photo 197 (35), Photo 98 (14) and Photo 449/1 (5).
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

14. Maps 51850/10(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(4)
Title:
[Fort Onslow, Bimaru, Kabul, interior.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Marked 'Confidential' in the negative. Genre: War Photography Interior view, showing part of the fort buildings, with two British officers posed in the foreground. For a detailed plan of the fort, see accompanying plan no. 19, 'Sherpur Cantonment. Plan of Fort Onslow above the vil...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

15. Maps 51850/10(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(29)
Title:
[Bridge over the Kabul River.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View looking along the river towards the wooden pile bridge built just to the north of Fort Ibrahim Khan, on the road linking the Sherpur Cantonment and Siah Sang. For plans of the structure, see accompanying plan no. 3a, 'Bridge over Cabul River at Fort Ibrahim Khan.' Ot...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

16. Maps 51850/10(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(30)
Title:
[Bridge over the Kabul River.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography A slightly more distant view of the bridge seen in print 29, looking downstream towards Lataband, with another bridge in the foreground. Lataband, a pass in the Karkacha Hill some 19 miles from Kabul, was the site of a fortified post during the Afghan War. For another cop...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

17. Maps 51850/10(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(44)
Title:
[Bridge over the Kabul River.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View looking along the river towards the wooden bridge, the same structure also seen in prints 29-30. Reproduced in Francis Gordon Cardew (et al.), 'The Second Afghan War 1878-80. Abridged official account' (London, 1908), facing p. 394, and there captioned, 'The 'Pul-i-...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

18. Maps 51850/10(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(3)
Title:
[Fort Onslow, Bimaru, Kabul.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography Close view of a section of Fort Onslow (see note at print 1). Other copies of this photograph can be found at APAC Photo 197 (3) and Photo 98 (39).
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

19. Maps 51850/10(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(5)
Title:
[Fort Roberts and Kabul.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Marked 'Confidential' in the negative. Genre: War Photography Panoramic view composed of two joined prints, taken from the heights of Siah Sung and looking southwards towards Fort Roberts, which occupies the left side of the panorama. The city of Kabul lies beyond to the right (so...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

20. Maps 51850/10(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 51850/10(12)
Title:
[Sherpur from Asmai, Kabul.] Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography Panoramic view composed of two joined prints, looking north-east from the lower slopes of the Asmai Heights, across open ground towards the Sherpur Cantonment and the Bimaru Heights in the distance. With the fortified village of Deh Afghan in the foreground. The valley l...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item