Sepia photograph of a flat open camp with thatched huts, a palm tree, a horse cart and distant buildings under a hazy sky.

Segregation camp during bubonic plague outbreak, Karachi, India, 1897

A sepia albumen photograph of a wide, flat open ground seen from an elevated viewpoint. Thatched and palm-roofed huts stand in the foreground beside a palm tree, while a horse-drawn cart and small figures cross the plain toward distant low buildings under a pale hazy sky.

Artist: Unknown
Date: 1897
Medium: Albumen prints Photographs
Source: Wellcome Collection
Size: 4000 × 3185 px

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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1897.
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19th century 1890s 1897 albumen print sepia photograph historical photograph colonial india thatched hut public health bubonic plague segregation camp india karachi