| Description | Photograph album, 28 cm x 44 cm, containing prints mostly 24cm x 29 cm depicting military activity and engineering works in India and Afghanistan, mostly with titles in pencil.
The titles (in order of occurrence) are:
Dam across the Ganges at Hurdwan
(Military) trestle bridge
Pontoon bridge
Testing double pontoon in tank
Hurdwan [view of river]
St John the Baptist Church, Roorkee, N.W.P.
Regulating dam Ganges Canal
Corn mill at Gundamuck, Afghanistan
Group of Warrant Officers and Non-Commisioned Officers Bengal Sappers, Afghanistan
Jamrood Fort at the entrance to the Khyber Pass Afghanistan [Jamrud Fort]
Fort Ali Musjid Khyber taken by the British 22d November, 1879 [Ali Masjid; 2 photographs]
Picquet of the 51st Regiment in the Khyber Pass
In the Khyber Pass
General Macpherson - Jellalabad [informal group with other officers]
Amir's gardens, Jellalabad
Jellalabad [Jalalabad - two views]
Jellalabad. Sufed Koh (white mountain) in background
No. 6 Company, Bengal Sappers & Miners
Peshawar Gate Jellalabad
Bengal Sappers' bridge across the Cabul river at Jellalabad
Raft of Surnairs or blown skins [pen and ink drawing showing British officers being ferried across a river on a raft supported by inflated animal skins]
Bengal Sappers
Part of Jellalabad
Remains of a stone bridge at "Sufed Sung" Afghanistan. Centre piers carried away by a rush of water.
Sapper bridge across Cabul river Jellalabad
Group of Afghan contractors
Hurdwar N.W.P.
Scene in Afghanistan
On the banks of the Cabul river
Gardi Khat Afghanistan
Double line of troops formed up to receive Ameer Yacoob Khan on his entry into Gundamuck to sign the treaty of peace. [Amir Yakub Khan; the formations are marked "I. Battalion C Brigade R.H.A." and "X. Hussars"]
Sir Sam Brown's camp Jellalabad
Part of British Camp Sufed Lung
Blockhouse built by Sappers - Afghanistan
On the banks of the Cabul river
Photos of Graeco-Buddhist images found in the Jellalabad valley
Representing the temptations of Bhud [pieces of stone frieze representing the Buddha and Mara]
Bactrian camels
Remains of the broken bridge utilized for the passage of troops
Sufed Kho (snowy mountain) in background
Bengal and Madras Sappers camps [other camps in the background are marked "British cavalry camp" and "Camp of the Ameer of Afghanistan"]
British camp
Also a few untitled photographs of general views, bridges, pavilion, group of NCOs, and close-up view in unidentified city with mud brick buildings.
A mounted photograph of a bungalow in a British cantonment, with carriage and servants, is also enclosed in the album. |