• John Burke (photographer)

View of the northwest corner of the cantonment in the winter showing the laager, abatis and the 5th Punjab Infantry with mountains in the background, Sherpur, near Kabul, Afghanistan

between 20 December and 23 December 1879

Albumen silver print

comp.: 20.2 x 31.0 cm secondary support: 30.1 x 42.1 cm

PH1982:0373:077

• exterior view

signed and numbered - by the photographer, scratched in the negative, l.r.: "Burke 190" numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l.: "190. The laager and abattis north west corner Sherpur."

Kabul; Kabul; Afghanistan;

• architecture
• militaire
• topographique

• soldiers
• fortifications
• mountains
• wagons
• abatis
• cantonment
• infantry
• laager