Amir Abdur Rahman Period: Bagh-i-Babur.

July 1972
View from the heights above Bagh-i-Babur through the Gozargah Pass, the gap carved by the Kabul River between Koh-i-Asmai on the left and Sher Darwaza on the right. Kabul city lies to the north; the Machinekhana to the south. These workshops established in April 1887 manufactured arms, swords, saddles, boots and uniforms for the army, but also furniture, brass lamps and candelabra, tin pots and pans, silver tea pots and fireworks. The photo was taken from the top of the hill overlooking the gardens where the noon guns used to boom forth at 12 noon every day until 1992 when the practice was discontinued by the mujahideen, and then intermittently revived under the Taliban. They are now (2016) silent.

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Image Size: 6393x4295 / 4.3MB; 1972 Afghanistan Kabul Amir Abdur Rahman Bagh-i-Babur Gozargah Kabul River Koh-i-Asmai Sher Darwaza Machinekhana Hills Mountains Noon Gun Pole Artel Landscapes Slide LD 1972 01297
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July 1972<br />
View from the heights above Bagh-i-Babur through the Gozargah Pass, the gap carved by the Kabul River between Koh-i-Asmai on the left and Sher Darwaza on the right. Kabul city lies to the north; the Machinekhana to the south. These workshops established in April 1887 manufactured arms, swords, saddles, boots and uniforms for the army, but also furniture, brass lamps and candelabra, tin pots and pans, silver tea pots and fireworks. The photo was taken from the top of the hill overlooking the gardens where the noon guns used to boom forth at 12 noon every day until 1992 when the practice was discontinued by the mujahideen, and then intermittently revived under the Taliban. They are now (2016) silent.