Urban Heritage & Public Life in Old Srinagar Photographs
A collection of old photographs showing everyday urban scenes and heritage in Srinagar during the twentieth century. The pictures include a woman selling traditional embroidered and everyday Kashmiri caps in a small bazaar shop around 1920; a traditional village kitchen interior in the 1980s with women and children around clay stoves and earthen utensils during winter; Lal Chowk commercial area in the late 1940s with grass-covered roofs on buildings, shops, pedestrians, and bicycles; the Shah-e-Hamdan shrine along the River Jhelum riverbank in 1911 with boats and wooden structures; Amira Kadal bridge over the Jhelum in 1910 showing its cantilever design and river activity below; and the Tourist Reception Centre in Srinagar in 1979 with its courtyard, buses, and visitors. Simple views of old Kashmir. This photograph from 1920 shows a woman seated inside her small shop in Srinagar, engaged in the trade of traditional Kashmiri caps. Shelves behind her display various styles of headgea...