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Elephant battery of heavy artillery along the Khyber Pass at Campbellpur – Antique Wall Art

Elephant battery of heavy artillery along the Khyber Pass at Campbellpur, 1895 Feb. 5-8. — historic photograph
Elephant battery of heavy artillery along the Khyber Pass at Campbellpur, 1895 Feb. 5-8.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Elephant battery of heavy artillery along the Khyber Pass at Campbellpur, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Elephant battery of heavy artillery along the Khyber Pass at Campbellpur

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Elephants, rather than horses or mules, were the animals hauling this battery of heavy guns, which sets this view apart from more typical pictures of the British Indian army. William Henry Jackson took the photograph between February 5 and 8, 1895, while traveling with the World's Transportation Commission, a round-the-world tour. Harper's Weekly printed it as a halftone that same year. Indian army units often used elephants to move artillery over rough ground that wheeled carriages could not cross, and the picture records that practice a generation before the wars of the twentieth century.

Created / published1895 Feb. 5-8.
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
GenrePhotographic prints.
NotesPublished as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 927. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsElephants. Artillery (Weaponry) Passes (Landforms)Pakistan--Campbellpore.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151488

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