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Gulistan Station on the Great Military Railway, at entrance to Kojak Tunnel – Historic Reproduction

Gulistan Station on the Great Military Railway, at entrance to Kojak Tunnel, [1895] — historic photograph
Gulistan Station on the Great Military Railway, at entrance to Kojak Tunnel, [1895]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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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Gulistan Station on the Great Military Railway, at entrance to Kojak Tunnel

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Gulistan Station sat at the mouth of the Kojak Tunnel on the Great Military Railway, the line the British built through the arid hills of Balochistan, in what is now Pakistan, to carry troops and supplies toward the Quetta frontier. William Henry Jackson made the view while photographing for the World's Transportation Commission's tour of the world in the mid-1890s, and *Harper's Weekly* printed it as a halftone in 1895. The tunnel was a demanding piece of engineering through rugged mountain terrain, and the picture shows how the station and its approach were set into the stony landscape at the edge of a steep, difficult climb.

Created / published[1895]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
GenrePhotographic prints.
NotesPublished as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 868. 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).
SubjectsGreat Military Railroad. Railroad stations. Tunnels.Pakistan--Gulistan.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151487

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