Gulmarg Meadows & Srinagar Views in Old Kashmir Photographs
A collection of old photographs showing everyday landscapes, spiritual sites, and community figures in Kashmir during the twentieth century. The pictures include a late 1970s–early 1980s view of Gulmarg meadow with wooden buildings, vehicles, visitors, and the snow-covered Pir Panjal range; a 1932 panoramic postcard of Srinagar featuring Kohi Maran fort, Hazrat Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom shrine, and the mosque on the hill with clustered houses and chinar trees; the main market street in Leh, Ladakh in 1911 with locals in traditional attire, shops, and the Old Leh Palace above; the Baba Reshi Shrine near Gulmarg in its original Mughal-style structure from the early twentieth century; a mid-twentieth century portrait of Sufi saint Hazrat Syed Meerakh Shah Kashani; and a woman steering a traditional wooden boat on a river in 1980 with calm waters and surrounding trees. Simple views of old Kashmir. This photograph, taken for a postcard series in the late 1970s to early 1980s, presents a vie...