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An album of photographic views and portraits taken during the Miranzai Valley Expedition of April 1891. 34 albumen prints (22 of these 150x205mm or the reverse, the others 100x145mm or the reverse). (Occasional light wear and occasional light fading near the edges.) Inserted in a 20th-century black cloth album, by Brian Robinson of Bournemouth, lettered in gilt up the spine. Provenance: Robert Ramsay Napier Sturt (1852-1907, Colonel; by descent to:) -- Mary Anna Marten, OBE (neé Sturt, Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset; 1929-2010; bookplate and inscription recording the earlier provenance).
SECURING THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. Expeditions in the Miranzai Valley in 1891 aimed to secure the frontier along the Samana mountain range. The expedition of April 1891 was organized to reassert control of local tribes, who had quickly broken the agreement reached following the first expedition of January that year. The scenes in this album, probably compiled by Colonel Sturt of the 2nd Punjab Infantry, include: the Peshawar Mountain Battery, encampments and views at Gulistan, Sukh and its valley, Mastaan, the fort and church at Kohat, and portraits of Waziri leaders and fighters. Together with, in the same album, c. 30 photographic scenes in Devon.
An album of photographic views and portraits taken during the Miranzai Valley Expedition of April 1891. 34 albumen prints (22 of these 150x205mm or the reverse, the others 100x145mm or the reverse). (Occasional light wear and occasional light fading near the edges.) Inserted in a 20th-century black cloth album, by Brian Robinson of Bournemouth, lettered in gilt up the spine. Provenance: Robert Ramsay Napier Sturt (1852-1907, Colonel; by descent to:) -- Mary Anna Marten, OBE (neé Sturt, Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset; 1929-2010; bookplate and inscription recording the earlier provenance).
SECURING THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. Expeditions in the Miranzai Valley in 1891 aimed to secure the frontier along the Samana mountain range. The expedition of April 1891 was organized to reassert control of local tribes, who had quickly broken the agreement reached following the first expedition of January that year. The scenes in this album, probably compiled by Colonel Sturt of the 2nd Punjab Infantry, include: the Peshawar Mountain Battery, encampments and views at Gulistan, Sukh and its valley, Mastaan, the fort and church at Kohat, and portraits of Waziri leaders and fighters. Together with, in the same album, c. 30 photographic scenes in Devon.