British Soldier in Karachi and at the RAF Kohat Airfield in 1945 in the Northwest Frontier Region
Series: Harvard College Library Colonial Photograph Collection
Published: 1945
Language: eng
Notes: Partial (preliminary) level record.

More than 150 photos displayed, one to five to a page, on one or both sides of the album leaves. Photos inserted in corner mounts and not pasted down. A mixture of amateur and professional (for tourists) photos. Most of the photos are approximately 6 x 8cm. although a few are somewhat larger. There are also a few postcards. The compiler neatly organized and captioned the photos in white ink beneath the photos in the first half of the album but failed to provide any captions for the rest of the album. The album is a Boots Stationery Department two ring notebook (23 x 28cm.). Several leaves are now detached -- ring holes need reinforcement. The first 30 photos are of various more or less standard scenes in Karachi. The next 31 photos are of Kohat and the surrounding area. These are followed by 10 photos of the Khyber Pass and of a Kohat-Chubbier trip. Next is a group photo captioned "Personnel of R.A.F. Kohat. X-Mass 1945" which is followed by 3 photos taken at Tika Gul, Murree Hill. Next are 33 standard photos of famous sights and scenes elsewhere in British India and 4 postcards showing scenes in Poona. The captions end and we next have 10 photos of our soldier and a colleague or two with a truck figuring in some of the pictures -- one of the trucks has a red cross insignia raising the possibility that our soldier might have been an ambulance driver. These are followed by two larger (postcard size) photos of uniformed personnel (with signatures on the back by those pictured). Here we leave British India and end with a dose of family, friends and scenes in the British Isles (except for 2 pages containing 10 tourist photos of St. Petersburg in Florida with printed captions)

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