Leaves from an Afghan scrapbook : (Record no. 41501)

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Transcribing agency ACKU
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Geographic area code a-af---
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number DS352.
Item number T467 1910
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Thornton, Ernest.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Leaves from an Afghan scrapbook :
Remainder of title the experiences of an English official and his wife in Kabul / Ernest and Annie Thornton ; with illustrations form photographs and Sketches by the authors, and other sources.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc John Murray,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1910.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi, 225 pages :
Other physical details illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions 30 cm.
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General note “Ernest Thornton was an English official and industrial manager who in 1892 was engaged by the ruler of Afghanistan, Amir ʻAbd al-Rahman Khān (reigned 1880−1901), to establish a tannery and leather factory in Kabul. After encountering all manner of difficulties with the enterprise, Thornton resigned his post and left Afghanistan the following year. In late 1902, he received an offer from the Afghan government to return to Kabul to make another attempt at establishing a factory. Accompanied by his wife Annie, Thornton lived in Afghanistan in 1903−9, where he successfully built and operated a plant that produced boots for the Afghan army. Thornton, who at one point was one of only two Englishmen living in the country, worked closely with ʻAbd al-Rahman’s successor, Amir Habibullah Khān (reigned 1901−19), who sought to modernize his country but whose real passion was golf. Leaves from an Afghan Scrapbook is an account by the Thorntons of their life in Afghanistan. It offers a detailed portrayal of Amir Habibullah Khān and life at the court as well as observations on Afghan religious life, customs, dress, music, and economic activity. Of particular interest are Ernest Thornton’s observations on the speed with which a largely illiterate Afghan workforce with little or no formal education or training for industrial labor was able to master modern technologies and operate up-to-date machinery imported from Europe”—copied from website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note English
600 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Thornton, Annie.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Kabul (Afghanistan).
Geographic name Afghanistan – Description and travel.
Geographic name Afghanistan – Social life and customs.
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Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds352_t467_1910 ">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds352_t467_1910 </a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Monograph
Call number prefix azu_acku_ds352_t467_1910
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 16/01/2018   DS352.T467 1910 3ACKU000504661 16/01/2018 16/01/2018 Monograph The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.