As well as building a relationship with the Afghans he encountered, the amateur photographer set out to document their way of life

An Afghan military band stands wearing matching brown uniforms, surrounded by coloured flags

An elephant drinks out of a bottle at the Benson's Wild Animal Farm in New Hampshire, which opened in 1926

photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt driving through the three's tunnel

People inflating a hydrogen balloon on the roof of the John Wanamaker store on Broadway and Tenth Avenue, planning to travel to Philadelphia in 1910

Passengers on board the Queen Mary admire the New York skyline as the ocean liner docks in Manhattan at dawn in 1939

Overview of the Gaillard Cut, formerly Culebra Cut, an excavation deep into Culebra Mountain for the construction of the Panama Canal

On 24 March 1936, two months before the maiden voyage, The Daily Mail published a souvenir supplement on the Queen Mary

Officers on board the Queen Mary, which was the largest and fastest ocean liner when it launched in 1936

New Zealander middle distance runner Jack Lovelock sailed from Southampton in 1936 to compete against America's top runners

New York City residents lounge in the Battery Park shade on a hot day in 1910

Locomotive 13, purchased new in 1886 from the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works

More than 10,000 workers helped construct the Twin Towers, 60 of which were killed on the job. After they were finished in 1970 they attracted global attention

Men gather around a vehicle balancing on the edge of a bridge after it crashed in Central Park in 1910

John F, Kennedy arrives at Southampton after sailing from New York on 2 March, 1939, 22 years before he came president of the US