Lahore - the Sonali Musjid, or Golden Mosque – Historic Reproduction
(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: Lahore - the Sonali Musjid, or Golden Mosque, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Lahore - the Sonali Musjid, or Golden Mosque
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The Sonali Masjid, or Golden Mosque, in Lahore is the subject here, and its name comes from the gilded decoration that once marked its domes and upper walls. William Henry Jackson made this photograph between February 8 and 11, 1895, while traveling with the World's Transportation Commission, which took him across Asia. Harper's Weekly printed the image as a halftone engraving later that year, and the print is valued today as a record of a Mughal-era building seen by a Western traveler at the close of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | 1895 Feb. 8-11. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 894. 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). |
| Subjects | Mosques.Pakistan--Lahore. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,168 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151464 |
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