A tattered leather-bound photo album found in the Getty Research Institute’s archives is one of University of California, Irvine art historian Alka Patel’s latest discoveries. Patel believes the photographs were taken by British military surveyors during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1881) and may comprise the earliest available documentation of a notoriously difficult region of Afghanistan: the southern city of Qandahar and its surroundings.
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