AEE 206 — Ziegel und Salz / Bricks and salt
|AEE 206-1| Vor den gerundeten Löss-Hügeln stehen zwei grosse Ziegel-Brennöfen, daneben ein Haus. Im Vordergrund lagern Haufen von Dornbüschen als Brennmaterial. Neben dem Haus steht eine Gruppe von Menschen und Pferden. ♦♦♦ In a fold of the rounded loess hillocks stand a pair of lime-kilns and a house. In the foreground are piles brush collected from the hills as fuel as fuel for the kilns, with a group of men and horses visible nearby.
|AEE 206-2| Ausschnitts-Vergrösserung ♦♦♦ Enlargement
|AEE 206-1|
Vor den gerundeten Löss-Hügeln stehen zwei grosse Ziegel-Brennöfen, daneben ein Haus. Im Vordergrund lagern Haufen von Dornbüschen als Brennmaterial. Neben dem Haus steht eine Gruppe von Menschen und Pferden.
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In a fold of the rounded loess hillocks stand a pair of lime-kilns and a house. In the foreground are piles brush collected from the hills as fuel as fuel for the kilns, with a group of men and horses visible nearby.
[Liste der Negative:] 15-255 – / 15-192 – Personengruppe vor Ziegeltrocknerei. / 15-189 –
- N. Dupree (1977): An historical guide to Afghanistan, p. 418: [Dupree cites Marco Polo:] “The hills that lie to the south of it [Taloqan] are large and lofty. They all consist of white salt, extremely hard, with which the people for a distance of thirty day’s journey round, come to provide themselves, for it is esteemed the purest that is found in the world. It is so hard, that it can be broken only by great iron hammers. The quantity is so great that all the countries of the earth might be supplied from thence.” [she continues:] “100-pound blocks of salt are still quarried from Taluqan’s mines and represent one of Afghanistan’s most important mineral resources. Donkeys laden with Taluqan’s salt trot through the bazaars and truckloads are carried to Kunduz and Kabul.”
Image No.
AEE 206
Collection
Albert E. Engler 1939-1944
Series
AEE 202-216, Reise nach Nord-Afghanistan
Format
Negativ, Film 43/56 mm; Neue Abzüge 125/175 mm
Quality
gut, leicht unscharf
Place, date
Baghlan, Januar 1942
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