Afghanistan: The Harrison Forman Collection

The online exhibit Afghanistan: images from the Harrison Forman Collection documents the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s, several years before the Soviet Union invaded the country. 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 Collection.