View of the headquarters' gate of the British cantonment with mountains in the background, Sherpur, near Kabul, Afghanistan

People:

John Burke (photographer)

Title:

View of the headquarters' gate of the British cantonment with mountains in the background, Sherpur, near Kabul, Afghanistan

Date:

between 1878 and 1880

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 20.0 x 31.7 cm secondary support: 30.1 x 42.1 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0373:089

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

signed and numbered - by the photographer, scratched in the negative, l.l.: "Burke 273" numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l.: "273. Hsad quarters gate from Engineers park."

Location:

Kabul; Kabul; Afghanistan;

Subject:

architecture
military
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

trees
gate
road
tents
military camp
mountains
arches
cantonment

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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