Thursday, 4 December 2014

Former US President Richard Nixon visits Lahore in 1969


Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal reciting his famous poem shikwa in the Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, at the annual gathering of the Anjuman Himayate Islam.


This unusual though perhaps Orientalist collection of images by the photographer, a native of Corfu, gives us fresh insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Indian history.


The end of Balaclava Harbour, 1855-1856. Photo at the J Paul Getty Museum.


Locomotive on Eggleston


Lincoln Memorial 1914


A photograph of Bodie in the 1890s, when it was a thriving mining town


Troops passing Lochnagar Crater, October 1916