Frontier Collection (page 3)

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

The Lake Frontier of Canada and the United States. From a collection of maps relevant to campaigns between 1794-1815. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum

Group of Afghans - Khyber Pass, Afghanstan. Date: circa 1910

Jimson, the mule.Photograph from an album of 60 photographs.Associated with 2nd Bn Middlesex Regiment Date: circa 1902

NWFP - A carrier pigeon Trainer
Pakistan - NWFP (North West Frontier Province) - A carrier pigeon Trainer. Date: circa 1920

The fort of Gilgit, on the Hunza Frontier of Kashmir. Date: 1892

Soldiers on the Russian frontier at Helmstedt, Germany
Three soldiers (two British, one Russian) on the Russian frontier at Helmstedt, Germany, standing in front of a British Zone sign

Cherat Hill club and sports ground, India (now Pakistan)
Officers club and soldiers football ground, Cherat Hill, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, North-West Frontier, India (now in Pakistan). Date: circa 1907

Group photo, winners of Cherat League, India
Group photo, H Company the Kings Regiment (Liverpool), winners of the Cherat League, Cherat Hill Station football ground, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, North-West Frontier, India (now in Pakistan)

North West Frontier Province - Picket of Afghan Infantry at the boundary line between the British and Afghan Territory. Date: circa 1910s

Frontier guards at the Ulster border
Frontier guards fraternising on the Ulster boundary: the village of Pettigo (in the free state) from the Ulster side of the border line (across the centre of the bridge)

Spain. Aragon. Loarre Caste. Complex built during 11th-12th centuries

Return to Alsace
Enfin de retour - a girl representing Alsace welcomes a French soldier who has toppled the German frontier sign and retaken the department occupied since 1870. Date: 1914

Italians in Greece 1940
Greece : Italian troops advance into Greek territory beyond the Albanian frontier Date: October 1940

Ciudad Rodrigo (Kelly)
Wellingtons force storm the heavily defended French fortress of CIUDAD RODRIGO, a key fortress on the Portugal- Spain frontier Date: 15 January 1812

Frontier Town / 1870
A frontier town - a rising town of Western America in its infancy. Date: circa 1870

Jameson Raid / Crossing
THE JAMESON RAID Dr Jameson and his escort cross the frontier into the Transvaal, hoping to trigger a rising of the Uitlanders against the Boers : vainly. Date: 29 December 1895

The Royal Artillery Lines and Barracks, Karachi, Pakistan
The Royal Artillery Lines with Royal Artillery Barracks, Karachi, Pakistan (at this stage the N.W.F.P - Northern India). Date: circa 1905

NWFP - Khyber Pass - Showing Railway Bridge, Tunnel and defences. Date: circa 1920s

NWFP - A camel convoy (train) from Razani to Razmak. Date: circa 1920s

Bara, NWFP - Afridis waiting for Jirga (Tribal meeting)
NWFP (North West Frontier Province) - Afridis waiting for Jirga (Gathering / Meeting) of the Heads of a Frontier Tribe at Bara. Date: circa 1920s

A Cowboy Bachelors Home, Western Frontier, Montana, USA. Date: 1910s

Royal Sussex Regiment memorial, Murree Hills, India (now in Pakistan). It lists the names of fifteen soldiers, and three women, who died in 1888

Rodeo scene at Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA, part of the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days event. 1929

Georgetown Colorado Carpenters Gothic
The Maxwell House a fine Carpenters Gothic timber framed house in Georgetown, Colorado, centre of the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. Built in 1870 for Thomas Maxwell a mining engineer

Pierce Cunningham Homestead
The log cabin with sod roof built by the trapper John Pierce Cunningham 1n 1885 near Jackson Hole in what is now the Grand Teton National Park

Solid Wooden Cart Wheel
Wagon with solid wooden wheels from the Kit Carson house in Taos, New Mexico

Cart at Kit Carson House
Wagon with solid wooden wheels from the Kit Carson house in Taos, New Mexico

Those Frontiers by William Heath Robinson, post WW1
A little disagreement as to the exact line. Two men bicker over a line of territory, have a scrap and then see that while they have been fighting

Spanish refugees in Gibraltar are given a meal of soup and bread by local boy scouts after crossing the frontier from Spain, 4 February 1965. Although Spanish-speaking, their passports are British

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