The end of the Afghan War - photographing the Ameer Yakoob Khan at Gandamak. Fixing" the negative" – Historic Photograph Print
(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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Step back in time with The end of the Afghan War - photographing the Ameer Yakoob Khan at Gandamak. Fixing" the negative", a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The end of the Afghan War - photographing the Ameer Yakoob Khan at Gandamak. Fixing" the negative"
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Here a camera is set up at Gandamak, a village on the road between Jalalabad and Kabul, where the Afghan ruler Ameer Yakoob Khan was photographed as the Second Anglo-Afghan War drew to a close. The wood engraving, published in *The Graphic* on July 12, 1879, shows the photographer at work fixing the negative, a detail that reflects how new and laborious field photography still was. Yakoob Khan had signed the Treaty of Gandamak that May, which gave Britain control of Afghanistan's foreign affairs in return for a subsidy. Within months, the British envoy in Kabul was killed, and Yakoob Khan abdicated.
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1879 July 12. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: The Graphic, 1879 July 12. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photographers...; Gt. Brit.--Hist.--1879; Photographers; Afghanistan--Gandamak; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137680 |
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