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Clayton Esterson | profile | all galleries >> Afghanistan >> Afghanistan Gallery #2 tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

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Afghanistan Gallery #2

Photographs of Afghanistan, mostly in Kabul in 1967-68. Dr. Bill Podlich, photographer. Scanned from slides and restored by C. Esterson.

If you have information or questions on any of the photos, please email me. Check out Afghanistan Gallery #1 for older pictures with lower resolution and little dust removal.

I now have a new slide scanner and here are its first results. The Plustek scanner has dust removal and the two pictures are a comparison. Last photo update: March 2013.

Without Dust Removal
Without Dust Removal		 With Dust Removal
With Dust Removal		 Kindergarten Dance
Kindergarten Dance		 Outdoor Class
Outdoor Class
Indoor Class
Indoor Class		 Education Under the Trees
Education Under the Trees		 Festival Day
Festival Day		 Well Keeper
Well Keeper
Annual Exhibition of Student Art Work
Annual Exhibition of Student Art Work		 Student Art Sculptures
Student Art Sculptures		 Art Show
Art Show		 Art Show #2
Art Show #2
Dr. Podlich & the Afghans
Dr. Podlich & the Afghans		 Algebra & Mud
Algebra & Mud		 All's Well
All's Well		 Preacher
Preacher
Outstanding
Outstanding		 Co-education
Co-education		 Buzkashi
Buzkashi		 Under the Trees
Under the Trees
Afghanistan
Afghanistan		 Afternoon Prayers
Afternoon Prayers

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Edie Maxey 19-Apr-2013 21:05
I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan from 1964-1966. Even though the rural areas were conservtive and poor, they were mostly peaceful - and the Afghans were extremely friendly. I worked with the Afghan cabinet members who organized the first free elections in the country at that time. They begged America for financial help, but received only a pittance because the aid they wanted wasn't "showy". I worked at the Afghan Ministry of Justice with many western educated men and Afghan mullahs. I was the first woman and first foreignor ever to work there. The Afghan men treated me very kindly and with great respect. It was a wonderful country. Sadly, the Afghan officials that I worked with were slaughtered by the communists. - Edie
Guest 04-Mar-2013 02:35
yea it may have still been like it is now in that era, but its amazing to see that there was a part of that country was living freely, with out violence! It is appalling to know that the country I live in has helped encourage what the country is today, but hey if we threw up some photos of that era in the United States right now it'd look the same. We can't forget our history and its happening so fast, before you know it we the United States could be exactly like that.
bbuc 02-Mar-2013 07:25
Yes the country was and is mostly rural and the pics of urban life may have been the exception, but they show a real place and time that are now worlds away.
It is fascinating and heart breaking to see what Afghanistan was like before religious and cultural war tore it apart... especially when you consider our (the US's) role in encouraging and financing the people who helped destroyed it.
Nate 27-Feb-2013 15:02
These photos depict only 0.01% of Afghans during that era. Afghanistan was still a highly conservative and underdeveloped nation then as it is now. This is a small microcosm of Afghan society and absolutely not representative of the Afghan people.
S Kumar 26-Feb-2013 04:04
Hi, my grandfather was a diplomat in the Middle East for almost 20 years and he used to tell me about how progressive and liberal places like Afghanistan and Iran used to be. He said that the first place he saw mini-skirts outside of London was Kabul, and how Kabul University was competing with MIT and Harvard for the best International Post-Graduate students.
Maryam 04-Aug-2011 19:46
Hi,

I am the daughter of Noor Mohammad Jabarkhail born in Kabul June 6 1946. He was in a general served his country. We moved to America in 1984 he passed away in July 1995
I was hoping to see if anyone has any information or can help me find anything about him. He has 4 daughters, if anyone can help please email me info@stoneexclusif.com
I have pictures of him in Russia, DC , well traveled and also a soccer player

Thank you
Maryam
Guest 25-Jun-2011 16:59
Afghan beautiful days have been destroyed by bloody foreigners...
Sayed Kanishka Sahel 06-Apr-2011 07:13
hmmm chi wakht hay bod yad az an wakht bakhair....
Farhad 24-Aug-2010 05:11
It seems that afghanistan changed very rapidly in a reverse way... See the prouded and sophisticated old times, it unbelieveable and uncampareable... Thanks guys for posting these pics and showing the world that we loved our country and always well.
Farhad From Kabul
Matin 22-Feb-2010 04:01
I enjoyed your pics. I want to thank you for posting them on the web. Do you have any pics from Helmand valley? If so, would you please post them as well. Thanks.
Isza 23-Oct-2007 12:26
hi
is there any possiable way you can get pictures from around 2005-2007 present?
i would like to see how things have changes since these pics were taken?
annonymous 23-Jul-2006 04:01
i saw KANDHAR movie thats why i was worried that situation in afghanistan is too bad. i mean the buildings that were shown in movie were ruined dirty and compact. but i see here pictures they say that it not that bad thanks
R Hunt 04-Jan-2005 14:17
I very much enjoyed your picture gallery of Afghanistan. We lived in Kabul in the 1970s. I have just one comment, I am quite sure that the picture you have labelled 'Kyber Pass' is in fact the 'Kabul Gorge' through which we drove many times on our way down to Peshawar via Jalalabad.

Regards

Renate Hunt
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