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Old Photos and Drawings — 40 Comments

  1. Great effort by Pahar to preserve the past. I found the pdf version of the book I was looking for, the red river and the blue hills. Thank you

  2. Dear Admin, Thanks for the wonderful resources you have put together!
    I am trying to access few old photographs and i clicked on the link but cant seem to view them. There is a permalink to the description, however, that doesn’t seem to open as well. Can you please help ?

    • We are sorry to be having some difficulties with the website at the moment. We are working on the issues and hope to soon have them resolved. We appreciate your patience and regret the inconvenience. MCADDeditor

  3. Thank you very much! I noticed that among the images of “1935 Images de l’Himalaya–Photos by Vittorio Sella” there are no 34.jpg and 35.jpg.

  4. Thank you very much to the editor of this website for providing such excellent information. I study northeast India. Sikkim area. Are there any scholars who are studying the area? We can communicate with each other. My mailbox: m15011330079@163.com

  5. Dear Pahar Administrator,
    Thanks a lot for your valuable collections of history. I am from PAKISTANI Administrative KASHMIR…district Poonch and can you please any one provide me the tribes details of Poonch particularly the tribe now called SUDHAN…..my ancestors are from Arab yet this tribe people are in majority yet there is no authentic cue about their ancestor…..I will greatly appreciate please again a lot thanks for this collections of historical pieces of information

  6. hi
    so I wonder – where the photographer has misidentified the photos, don’t u think its worth adding a note?
    I saw 3 pics by Betsy Cowles, of “Boudha” and “Swayambhu” and they aren’t of Boudha or Swayambhu…

    • Shirlin, we could add a note at the bottom of any of the Betsy Cowles photos to say they have been mis-labeled, and give the correct caption. Before doing that we should make very sure the initial caption is incorrect, and then check to be sure what the revised caption should say. If you can work this out, send us a note with what you’ve found. MCADDeditor

  7. I could not find the photo of No 104756 /70690 Victoria Cross awarded Sher Bahadur Thapa,9th Gurkha Rifles was died in 19 Sept 1944 in the secon world war of San Mrino Italy fought against the German.

  8. Do you know or can tell me where I can find the exchange rate between British sterling and the Indian rupee anywhere around 1893? 1893 is the precise year but a year on either side would be okay. I’m writing a historical novel and my characters are in Srinagar. This is where I need the exchange. I do know that the Kashmir Chilki rupee is equal to 10 British annas, but don’t know the sterling to rupee or vice versa rate. I will do somersaults if you can get me this information.

  9. I have been trawling the net for all things Himalayan for years and finding your site is hitting the jackpot. It’s like inheriting a Himalayan Treasure. I love it all, Thank you so much

  10. Hi everybody. I have a question about photos of the Himalayas. I have an old photo from a place. It shows a very rocky mountain range with what looks like a part of an apparent peak or mountain. In this apparent peak or mountain there are two snow-fingers that descend downwards from a high ridge toward the base of the mountain. The two snow-fingers meet with some jagged peaks. The whole place is extremely rocky without any kind of trees. For the amount of snow that is shown in the photo, it seems to be a high place. I don`t know if this place belongs to the Himalayas. If someone can help me, please send me an email to: jperez0172@hotmail.com

  11. I wanted some photos of Gohna lake at the time of flood and before the flood of Alakhnanda river. Is there any way i can get it? Help me out please.

  12. my maternal grandfather founded undivided India’s first Dental College in Karachi around 1926.His name was Dr. Mansookh Kallainji Patel
    I have loads of pictures ;and his writeups on his way from Germany(where he studied) to Karachi by steamer

  13. Dear Pahar Administrator,
    Thanks a lot for your valuable collections of history. I am from PAKISTANI Administrative KASHMIR…district Poonch and can you please any one provide me the tribes details of Poonch particularly the tribe now called SUDHAN…..my ancestors are from Arab yet this tribe people are in majority yet there is no authentic cue about their ancestor…..I will greatly appreciate please again a lot thanks for this collections of historical pieces of information

  14. have information where some old photographs of Nainital (+30 nos) are available.all are older than 1900 A.D.if you spent money scans can be send .
    kcjain

  15. Thank you for this wonderful website, my grandfather ran the leper hospital medical operation in Rawalpindi His name was Dr. Daniel Mcauley do you have any information/papers /archives concerning him? Many thanks.

    • We have nothing (yet!) on Dr. Daniel Mcauley, but would be happy to post material if you can find anything. Are his photos, letters and possibly other writings available anywhere? MCADDeditor

    • Dear admin thanks a lot for this website. Does any one has a picture of Karakoram from the summit of harmukh kashmir. As you know the k2 was discovered from the station peak of harmukh by Thomas montgomerie. If anyone has please share with me Zeeshanmushtaq196@gmail.com

  16. my ancestors were called Yule and lived in Calcutta,My grandmother, Inez Yule was a schoolteacher and married Harry Crabbe a journalist. Could there be a connection.

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