Photographer: John Burke (1843 - 1900) and unknown. Views during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. 1878 - 1880. 11 albumen prints. Each circa 21 x 33 cm. 6 signed and with number in the negative in lower right/left, 1 mounted to board; some annotated in pencil on the verso. The images show barracks, battle fields, military camps, troops and the vast landscape of Afghanistan and the Kabul Valley, as well as a camel train and entrance to the Khyber Pass. – Several slightly faded, some light handling marks, a few with small tears in edges (some repaired), otherwise most in good condition. Provenance: Günter Heil Collection Lit.: Omar Khan From Kashmir to Kabul. Photography 1860 - 1900. Ahmedabad 2002, ill. p. 121.
Photographer: John Burke (1843 - 1900) and unknown. Views during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. 1878 - 1880. 11 albumen prints. Each circa 21 x 33 cm. 6 signed and with number in the negative in lower right/left, 1 mounted to board; some annotated in pencil on the verso. The images show barracks, battle fields, military camps, troops and the vast landscape of Afghanistan and the Kabul Valley, as well as a camel train and entrance to the Khyber Pass. – Several slightly faded, some light handling marks, a few with small tears in edges (some repaired), otherwise most in good condition. Provenance: Günter Heil Collection Lit.: Omar Khan From Kashmir to Kabul. Photography 1860 - 1900. Ahmedabad 2002, ill. p. 121.
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