[Rarebooks] FS: Photo album of Kashmir, 1942

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[India] Photo album captioned “Photographs taken during a Trek made on foot through the Sind and Liddar Valleys in Kashmir and into Ladakh during September 1942.” 71 black and white photos, most measuring appx. 3.25 by 2.25 inches, although two of them measure 4.25 by 3.25 inches. Oblong 4to, red boards with paper label noted in ball-point pen on the upper cover. One photo is missing, the boards with some rubbing, otherwise a very good copy. 

Most of the photos show scenery and mountains, including three triptych panoramas (one of them a view of Nanga Parbat), but others include a series of shots of “cook and ponymen haggling over number of ponies to be taken”; a view including the camp of two Royal Artillery officers, one of whom apparently shared his name: Norman Wright (this allusion to a namesake is the only indication of authorship); a ponyman carrying a cook across a stream in front of a collapsed snow bridge, etc. 

Included is a 9-page typed journal of the trip, written in fairly clipped sentences but which still conveys some more interesting details of the journey. His commentary reveals the degree to which civilization was creeping into this part of the world—he comments about soon-to-be-completed motor roads, “telephone wires laid at seemingly impossible places,” etc.—as well as the difficulties of photographing in mountain conditions and some of his fellow travelers. The last page is a list of food he brought. 
$300 plus shipping. 


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