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Description: | Photograph of a family of beggars seated on a string bed, taken by John Burke in Kabul, Afghanistan, c. 1879-80, in the period of the Second Afghan War. It is from an album full of images taken during the occupation of Kabul in the later phase of the war from October 1879.
Burke travelled widely in the sub-continent but is best known as a significant photographer of Afghanistan. In his two-year expedition he worked steadily in the hostile environment, recording the military events, the topography and the people of the region in which the strategies of the Great Game (concerning the Anglo-Russian territorial rivalry) were played out. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Burke, John | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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