The Kashmir Gallery

A photograph from ‘Ministers of Mercy’ by James Henry Franklin, 1872.

Women clearing weeds with a Dogra guard standing with a stick, 1890

Kashmiri peasents, 1895.

Kashmiri peasents, 1895

Kashmiri Brahmins by Francis Frith

Indian and European Hunters with Guns and Trophies Outside Tents at Their Camp 1864 By Samuel Bourne.

Photograph from A lonely summer in Kashmir (1904) by Margaret Cotter Morison.

Prayers in Hazratbal by Cartier Bresson

A Kashmiri weaver 1924

Ruins of Pari Mahal

From ‘Valley of Kashmir’ by Lawrence (Photo by Alam Chand)

Bridge of Boats over Indus at Khushal Garh [District Kohat, now in Pakistan]

Zaina Kadal

A Beauty of the Valley by Gertrude Hadenfeldt, from ‘The Charm of Kashmir’ (1920) by V.C. Scott O’connor (Vincent Clarence Scott, 1869-1945).

Snake charmer at Srinagar, 1892
from Illustrated London News. (By J.E Goodall)

US Soldier Vaden Carney and his date Pam Rumbold (CL), walking the streets of Kashmir, 1943. (Photo by: William Vandivert)

Bridegroom on horse, Photograph: ‘Random Ramblings in India’ (1928) by William H. Danforth.

Photograph from ‘Of Sea and Land’ (1945) by Tom Lakeman

Photograph from ‘Fifty years against the stream: The story of a school in Kashmir, 1880-1930’ by E.D. Tyndale-Biscoe

A cave in tree

Cherry Picking, Kashmir, 1953

A group photograph of the artists during the visit of Soviet leaders at Srinagar.
Image from Photo division India.

Photograph taken by A. Prtrocokino for his book titled “CASHMERE: Three Weeks in a Houseboat”, 1920

Local games, photo by Francis Firth in 1870’s

Nala-e-Mar (Photo by Francis Firth 1870)

C.M.S scout ambulance (Photo by Mrs. S.W.Steane in 1927)

Dhonga’s in Varmul (Edward Sache 1889)

Lal Mandi ghat, 1870

A shop in Srinagar, 1853

Gateway to Dal, 1893

Shrine of Makhdoom Sahab ( Photo by H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzo)

Foundation station of KU being laid by Syed. Meerak Shah

Eid gah road before eid, 1929

Infotisement for 1987 Channel Four documentary ‘The Riddle of Midnight’ [LA Times article from 1989]

Kashmiri Muslims offer Eid prayers at Eidgah in Srinagar in. The date of the picture is between 1911-1920. It’s most likely that the prayers were led by the then Mirwaiz Maulana Ahmadullah Shah.
Unknown photographer for the
Royal Geographical Society.

Late. Mirwaiz Yousuf Shah leading the funeral prayers of 22 martyrs of 13, July 1931 in the courtyard of Jamia Masjid.

Evening adult schools

Artisans doing paper mache, probably 1880

Sheikh Abdullah crying at death of his friend Nehru

Photograph of old Banihal pass (at 9,200 feet) by A. Hodgson for National Geographic magazine 1921.