Magic lantern is an early type of image projector employing pictures on sheets of glass. The lantern slide has its origins in 17th century optical viewing devices which came to be known as “magic lanterns.” The earliest slides for magic lanterns consisted of hand-painted images…
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (born 20 November 1916 – died 10 July 2006) was an Urdu and English language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. He wrote 50 books on topics such as poetry, fiction, criticism, journalism and art,[1][2] and was a…
Lahore Memories - LM011: The Mian’s of Baghbanpura - Lahore c. 1910 Contributed and Narrated by: Mian Haroun Rashid "This photograph is believed to have been taken in London circa 1910 and shows four members of the Mian Family of Baghbanpura, Lahore. All of whom…
Once Lahore's first state of the art Hospital UCH, Gulberg III (Photo c. 1960s by Pat Pickard) established in early 1960s, now in a bad shape and losing it's grandeur. It was a time when people can see it's cross that used to be illuminated…
Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) was an American artist. After his studies in Paris, Weeks emerged as one of America's major painters of Orientalist subjects. Throughout his adult life he was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to South America (1869), Egypt and Persia (1870),…
Syed Ahmed Shah (commonly known as Patras Bokhari ) -(b:1 October 1898 – d:5 December 1958 ) was an Urdu humourist, educator, essayist, broadcaster and diplomat from Pakistan. He is best known for his humorous writings in Urdu literature. Bokhari attended Government College, Lahore in…
Hazrat Abdullah Shah Baloch started building this mosque and was completed by his nephew Sardar Khan (most of historic pictures refer this mosque as Sardar Khan Mosque). This mosque does not exist in original shape, as seen in the old and new picture, only central…
Hazuri Bagh is a garden in Lahore, bounded by the Lahore Fort (east side), Badshahi Mosque (west side), the Samadhi of Ranjit Singh (north side) and the Roshnai Gate (south side). In the center stands the Hazuri Bagh Baradari, built by Ranjit Singh in 1813 to…
"Jine Lahore Nai Vekhiya O Jamiya Nai" is centuries old punjabi saying about Lahore, the one who never visited lahore, not born yet. How surprising if someone really never visited Lahore and hear alot about it, about it's gardens, monuments from Mughal Period to Sikh…
The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the "Old City", or "Androon Shehr" that was fortified by a city wall during the Mughal era In the Mughal days, the Old City was surrounded by a 9 meter high brick wall and had a rampart…