Kashmir Through Old Photographs

A collection of old photographs showing everyday commerce and street life in Srinagar during the 1970s and 1980s. The pictures include an elderly shopkeeper seated among sacks of grains and spices while holding a hookah; men at a timber distribution site using traditional weighing scales for logs; two children standing on a street with shops in the background; densely packed wooden houses along a riverbank with carved balconies; children seated on the edge of a traditional donga houseboat; a multi-storey brick commercial building with shops like a printing press; a lively fruit market at Dal Gate with crates of apples and handicraft displays; residents on a long donga on the River Jhelum; a cotton seller surrounded by large sacks for bedding materials; and busy ground-floor shops under wooden residential buildings with hanging laundry and signboards. Simple views of old Kashmir. This color photograph shows an elderly shopkeeper seated inside a traditional market shop in Srinagar, sur...

A collection of old photographs showing everyday urban scenes in Kashmir from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. The pictures include the Jhelum River view from Amira Kadal in Srinagar with boats, embankments, and parts of the Shergarhi Palace complex; the main market street in Leh, Ladakh in 1923 with yaks carrying loads and locals trading; an open-air mathematics class in 1951 with students seated around a blackboard on the ground; a woman cleaning a narrow residential pathway in a traditional neighborhood in the 1970s; men cutting timber logs at a street-side workshop in the 1970s; a shikara hire point along Dal Lake in Srinagar in the 1970s with moored boats and houseboats; a woman seated quietly along a stone wall with a bundle in the 1970s; and children gathered playing in a narrow lane surrounded by traditional houses in the 1970s. Simple views of old Kashmir. This early twentieth century photograph presents a view along the Jhelum River from Amira Kadal in Srinagar, ...