Kashmir Through Old Photographs

A collection of old photographs showing everyday work and social moments in Kashmir from the early 1900s to the 1950s. The pictures include labourers in 1948 coordinating to lift a large stone block using manual strength and simple tools; a communal gathering at Hazratbal in the early 1900s with men, women, and children seated together in traditional attire; women and children watching from a latticed wooden window in a residential home during the 1950s; a coloured postcard panoramic view of M A Road in Srinagar from the early 1900s showing open fields, orchards, and early buildings; houseboats moored along the Jhelum River at Baramulla in 1927 with people and luggage during travel; and agricultural workers manually harvesting and stacking grain bundles in rural fields during the 1950s harud season. Simple views of old Kashmir. This 1948 photograph documents a group of Kashmiri labourers working together to lift a massive stone block using only human strength and simple tools. The ...

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, ...

A collection of old photographs showing everyday life, cultural traditions, and historical landmarks in Kashmir from the early twentieth century to the mid-1950s. The pictures include women spinning wool on traditional wooden charkhas in a domestic setting in 1903; an aerial view of Srinagar in the early 1950s with vast agricultural fields and open spaces in areas like Rajbagh and Nishat; a young Kashmiri girl wearing handcrafted silver jewelry in traditional attire; the Chattabal weir on the River Jhelum as an important water control structure; the old Fateh Kadal wooden bridge over the Jhelum River with dense riverfront houses and the Shah Hamdan Mosque visible; and a portrait of respected Sufiana musician Ustad Ghulam Muhammad Qaleenbaft. Simple views of old Kashmir. This rare photograph from 1903 shows Kashmiri women engaged in the traditional practice of spinning wool using hand-operated wooden charkhas. Wool spinning was a fundamental domestic activity in Kashmir, carried ...