On the ridge, ruins of a wall built on a hill in Kabul, possibly the fortification Bala Hissar. Lyman Wilbur captioned this slide "Ancient wall--Kabul."
A scene on a street in Kabul: a horse-drawn carriage, or tanga; a man wearing a mixture of western and traditional clothing; and along the opposite side of the street, open air markets.
Three school aged boys in a scene Lyman Wilbur called "Kabul Lumber yard." One difficulty Morrison-Knudsen engineers faced in countries like Afghanistan was the lack of lumber for construction projects. Two solutions to this problem were to limit...
Entries from Lyman Wilbur's daily diary covering the Wilburs' 1958 trip to Afghanistan and the days leading up to the trip. These entries describe the trip documented by the photos in this collection.
