Capital and the largest city of Afghanistan

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A 'kuttar' or line of blind beggars in a row, two other men in discussion, Kabul, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph after L.W. Hart, 1843.

Dr Hamilton examining a child's eyes outside the surgery surrounded by waiting people.

Nashrullah Khan (son of the Amir of Afghanistan) having a tooth extracted in front of the soldiers of his father's army. Wood engraving after W. Small after J.A. Gray.

Afghanistan: portraits of the Kabul prisoners. Lithographs by L. Dickinson, 1843, after V. Eyre.

Narrative of the campaign of the Indus in Sind and Kaubool in 1838-9 / by Richard Hartley Kennedy.

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Kabul (Afghanistan)

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Nashrullah Khan (son of the Amir of Afghanistan) having a tooth extracted in front of the soldiers of his father's army. Wood engraving after W. Small after J.A. Gray.

Afghanistan: portraits of the Kabul prisoners. Lithographs by L. Dickinson, 1843, after V. Eyre.

Narrative of the campaign of the Indus in Sind and Kaubool in 1838-9 / by Richard Hartley Kennedy.

A 'kuttar' or line of blind beggars in a row, two other men in discussion, Kabul, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph after L.W. Hart, 1843.

Dr Hamilton examining a child's eyes outside the surgery surrounded by waiting people.