Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection
(Record Last Updated: October 15, 2004)

The online exhibit documents the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s. The photographs were taken by Harrison Forman in 1969. The online collection consists of 186 images selected from a set of 733 slides of Afghanistan in the Harrison Forman Photographic Collection housed at the American Geographical Society Library. These beautiful photographs can be used to teach abut the life and culture in Afghanistan.

Main and Secondary Subjects:
Social Studies: Global Studies; Anthropology; Geography; History; World history
Keywords: Afghanistan, Kabul, Kandahar, people, architecture, history, land, settlements, Hindu Kush, caravan, Muslim, merchants, occupations, domestic life, purdah

Source institution: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

For more information contact:
UW-Milwaukee Libraries
P. O. Box 604
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0604
(414)229-4785

Grade Levels: Kindergarten, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth
Cost: Free

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Language: English
Format: Image (.jpg), Web page