Category: Vintage Years

Homage to historic moments, photos and yesteryear photographers.

Vintage Years

And it took a mutiny to change policing: Why after the Mutiny of 1857, the old Kotwali system was replaced.

A vintage photo from 1900, and why policing changed in British India, from the Kotwali system of the Mughals.
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The loyal camel trooper of the British Indian army.

A photo from January 1857 shows a mounted Camel Trooper, possibly of the Punjab Irregulars.
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John Murray and his photo of the infamous well of Bibighar in Cawnpore.

One of the earliest photos of the infamous well of Bibighar in Cawnpore, British India.
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Once upon a moonlit square: A photo of Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi by Felice Beato, 1857.

A Felice Beato photo reveals what Chandi Chowk in old Delhi was like in 1858.
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Tampon TN Gas Masks: Inspection at Argonne.

A photo from 1916 reveals a line of French soldiers wearing the Tampon TN gas mask.
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Training in progress: A photo of Vaughan’s 58th Rifles by Charles Girdwood.

A photographer who rebranded the image of Indian soldiers, after the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
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