Kashmiris by Bourne & Shepherd, 1908

Photo by Bourne & Shepherd. Samuel Bourne, a prolific British photographer who first visited Kashmir in 1864. The photograph is probably from around that time.

From ‘The world’s peoples; a popular account of their bodily & mental characters, beliefs, traditions, political and social institutions’ by A.H. Keane (1908).
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Kashmir painted by Molyneux

70 paintings of Kashmir from the book ‘Kashmir described by Sir Francis Younghusband, K.C.I.E. Painted by Major E. Molyneux’ (1909). A dozen of these were later  re-used in a book called ‘Peeps at Many Lands: Kashmir’ (1911) by Mrs. C. G. Bruce.

Paintings of Pahalgam and Sind Valley, 1908

Paintings from ‘An eastern voyage: A journal of the travels of Count Fritz Hochberg through the British empire in the East and Japan (1910) by Hochberg, Friedrich Maximilian, Graf von, (1868-1921) ,Volume: 1 and 2. Year 1908.

On way to Ladakh, Baltal 

Ruins of Hindu Temple, Sind Valley

Drifting Clouds, Pahalgam

Summer Evening, Pahalgam

Summer Afternoon, Pahalgam

Beginning of Spring, Pahalgam

Pahalgam, Kashmir

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Ladakh and Kashmir, 1908


33 photographs from ‘An eastern voyage: A journal of the travels of Count Fritz Hochberg through the British empire in the East and Japan (1910) by Hochberg, Friedrich Maximilian, Graf von, (1868-1921)
,Volume: 1. Year 1908. With that the total number of photographs uploaded to this blog comes around to about 3000. And my hard-disk is still cluttered with hundreds more!

Ladakhi Woman and Chid, showing the sheepskin headgear.

Ladakhi woman at Leh

Canal between Floating Garden, Dal Lake, Srinagar 

Uri Road

Harrowing in Ladakh

Old Hindu Monuments near Dras

Indus Valley near Leh

Kashmiri Women Pounding Rice. 

Ladakhi women Harvesting

Ladakhi women weaving

Lamayuroo Convent

main Street Leh

Mulbe

Nimoo Resthouse

Shah Jehan’s Summer House . (Probably Nishat Bagh. This structure was apparently pulled down in relatively recent time)

Srinagar

Srinagar

Tibetans travelling

Wooden Bridge on way to Leh

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