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Afghanistan: The Harrison Forman Collection
URL: http://www.uwm.edu/Library/digilib/afghan/

Description:
This online exhibit of nearly 200 photographs "documents the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s, several years before the civil unrest of the 1970s and 80s, the Soviet invasion, and the Taliban rule." The collection is organized into six categories: architecture, history, land, people, settlements, and transportation. Contains an interactive map that shows images from Kabul, Hindu Kush, and Mazar-e Sharif. From The American Geographical Society Collection, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.

Publisher:
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Afghanistan
Afghanistan -- Photographs

LII Database Information:
Record 675 created by Carole Leita on 03/23/2002
Last modification on 05/01/2007
Published: 03/23/2002  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/675