Frontier Collection (page 2)

Limit of French Zone in the Ruhr
France extend their sphere of influence after German default in reparations - limit of French Zone in the Ruhr. 1923

Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 1943

Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, USA
Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- the early west in modern splendour. Date: circa 1943

Pioneer Lobby, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, USA
Pioneer Lobby, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- the pioneer west in modern splendour. Date: circa 1940s

Old train, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Old pioneer train, Western Village, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940s

Dasara festival - Gurkhas - NWFP
Gurkhas sacrificing a water buffalo as part of the Dasara festival, held for 10 days in September October. This regiment are British colonial forces stationed in the North West Frontier Province

Wellingtons force attack the French at CIUDAD RODRIGO, a key fortress on the Portugal- Spain frontier; after fierce fighting, the defences are overcome Date: 15 January 1812

Saint-Gingolph, Haute-Savoie, France
A Souvenir shop (selling dolls and pearls) - Le Perle du Lac at Saint-Gingolph, a small town situated on the south bank of Lake Geneva (Lac Leman)

THE NORTH WEST FRONTIER
Indian soldiers guarding the barrier marking the border of the North West Frontier between British India and Afghanistan. Date: 1930s

RELIGION / EGYPT / SATIS
She guards the southern frontier of Egypt, and Lower Nubia, and is associated with the Nile flooding

Convair 580 - Prop-Jet Super Convair N400J at Prestwick Airport. Frontier Airlines introduced the Convair 580 designation for their Prop-Jet Super Convairs and the name became widely used Date: 1966

The Border between France and Spain at Hendaye - The International Bridge (Le Pont International) over the Bidesoa River. Date: circa late 1940s

NWFP - Caravan on its way to Peshawar from Afghanistan
NWFP (North West Frontier Province) - Caravan on its way to Peshawar from Afghanistan in the caravanserai at Landi Kotal. Date: circa 1920s

An Afridi Village in the North West Frontier Province (N.W.F.P.) Date: circa 1920

Last British Troops Leave India
Burmah-Shell Photographic News Service photograph: Last British Troops Leave India.One of two photographs of Somerset Light Infantry, last British troops to leave India, Bombay, 1948

Maginot Line fortifications by G. H. Davis
With Asparagus anti-tank defences: Maginot Line fortifications at the start of the Second World War. A typical frontier work, with galleries within a hillside, leading to pill boxes

Kissa Kahani Bazaar, Peshawar
The Kissa Kahani Bazaar or the romantic Street of Story-tellers extends from west to east in the heart of the city of Peshawar

A group of Pashtun men with rifles
Pashtuns (Pushtuns, Pakhtuns, Pukhtuns), also called Pathans are ethnic Afghans. An Eastern Iranian ethno-linguistic group with populations primarily in Afghanistan

Mohmand Hill Tribe, North West Frontier Province
Mohmand Hill Tribe (a Pashtun tribe), marching with flags, North West Frontier Province, British India, near the border with Afghanistan. Date: circa 1920

Jamrud Fort, North West Frontier Province, British India
Jamrud Fort, at the entrance to the Khyber Pass, North West Frontier Province, British India (now in Pakistan). Date: circa 1910s

Mari Indus Railway Station, North West Frontier Province (then in British India, now in Pakistan), with soldiers and a GIP military train. Date: circa 1919

Takht-i-Suleiman mountains, Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Date: circa 1908

Ali Masjid Fort, Khyber Pass, India
Ali Masjid Fort (top of hill, left), at the narrowest point of the Khyber Pass, near Peshawar, India (now in Pakistan). circa 1905

Slovak Jews Transported
Jews from the interior of Slovakia, mostly minor industrialists, are transported to the Hungarian frontier after being discovered by the Hinkla Guard Date: circa 1939

1923 Corfu Incident
Italian troops occupy Corfu, in response to the deaths of an Italian general and four of his staff on the Greek- Albanian frontier. Date: 1923

Colonial Africa. Delimitation of the new Franco-German borders in Congo. Commissioners of both countries in the swampy jungle of the Lobaye Valley, actual Central African Republic

Times War Atlas - WWI maps
The Times War Atlas. The atlas contains the following loose maps - 1) Map of the North Sea. 2) Map of the frontiers of France. 3) Map of the North Eastern Theatre of War. 4) Map of the Balkans

North West Frontier Province scenes - NWFP
Album containing 13 pencil and wash drawings, many finely annotated, showing scenes in the North West Frontier. Contains an ink sketch made during the Battle at Shinkamar, 1898

Gay 90s Bar, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, USA
Gay 90s Bar, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- with the historical glass front from the Old Arizona Club. Date: 20th century

Austrian Monitor Gunboat
An Austrian Monitor Gunboat patrolling the Danube, on its way to the Serbian frontier, shortly before the outbreak of World War One Date: 1914

Oman - Northern Frontier Policeman Date: circa 1950

Landi Kotal - Caravanserai
Landi Kotal, Afghanistan, North West Frontier Province - Caravanserai Date: circa 1920

Murree, Pakistan - General View
Murree, North West Frontier Province (now in Pakistan). A general view of this hillside town, featuring Holy Trinity Church (right). Date: circa 1910s

Police Station at Cherat - NWFP. Cherat is a hill station, immediately above the village Chapri and Saleh Khana in the Nowshera District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan

Lalkurti Bazar, Rawalpindi, NWFP Date: circa 1920s

British Indian Army - Hindustani Jats, NWFP Date: circa 1920s

Pakistan - NWFP - Rawalpindi - The Railway Station Date: circa 1906

British regimental crest -Cherat Hills, Pakistan
British Indian Regimental Badges Carved into the Rock Face in the Cherat Hills. Cherat was a hill station and sanatorium for British troops above the village of Saleh Khana commanding a view over

Gurkha troops marching to Dharmsala, Chitral relief, WW1
Troops of the 2/1st Gurkhas Division marching to Dharmsala for relief at Chitral, North West Frontier, India, during the First World War. Date: 1915

Pashtun Dancing girls with musicians - Peshawar
Pathan (Pashtun) Dancing girls with musicians - Peshawar. Located on the edge of the Khyber Pass near the Afghan border, Peshawar is the commercial, economic

Treaty of Rawalpindi, 1919
Treaty of Rawalpindi, 8th August 1919 - between Afghanistan and Britain during the Third Anglo-Afghan War. Sardar Ali Ahmad Khan (pictured)

Partition in India - refugees at Willingdon airport, New Del
A family who lost every male member in the frontier fighting - a forlorn group of refugees at Willingdon airport, New Delhi

Khyber Pass - Afghanistan / Pakistan - Jamrud Fort
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Aka Khel, Pashtun Afghan tribe, NW Frontier
Men of Aka Khel, a Pashtun Afghan tribe on the North West Frontier. Date: circa 1890s

Natives and camels, Jamrud, North West Frontier Province
Natives and camels, Jamrud district, near the Khyber Pass, North West Frontier Province, British India (now in Pakistan). Date: circa 1910s

Hacienda style restaurant, Tijuana, Mexico / USA border
People looking out to sea from the upper terrace of a hacienda style restaurant on the beach front at Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, not far from the border with the USA, during the Prohibition era

The Modern Boy front cover - the Khyber Pass
Front cover of The Modern Boy magazine featuring a photograph of roads around the Khyber Pass with a signpost pointing in one direction for cars and another for camels and horses

Vickers gun in Talbot lorry - (operations near Jamalabad)
Photograph: Vickers gun in Talbot lorry - (operations near Jamalabad). Shows two men in a truck with a gun pointing out of the front

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