India to Cairo, 1928--Dorothy Stebbins Bowles--home movies. Reel 4

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1928
1927 Dorothy Stebbins - Round the World Trip - India to Cairo #4 India 1927: Peshawar, Khyber Abb'd, Kashmir, Jaipur, "Raiualpindi" Cairo
Peshwar: Busy street. Men in turbans. Army post? Sign “Notice Visitors are strictly forbidden to enter the [?] perimeter By Order” (1:03) A woman in a long coat and hat (Dorothy’s new travelling companion, Mrs. Chase) in front of mountain landscape (Khyber Pass?). Man with a camel. Donkey. Men trading (one has scales). Soldiers. Western women in a car. Earthen hut. Men around village. Donkeys in the road. Merry-go-Round and food sellers in Peshwar, celebrating the end of Ramadan. Men and children ride a small carousel. Western man and women coming out of a building (Franny and Dick Hill). (3:59) Women in car (Franny and Dorothy). Scenes along the road from Abbottabad to Srinagar, Kashmir. Men digging rocks out of the road. Mountains. Franny in a gondola. Footage of the shore from the boat. Bridge, people on the shore, house boats, buildings, mountains, people working. Three woman at a picnic (Dorothy, Franny, and Mrs. Chase). People and children gathered at an event/fair. Western men and women. Building with “Hari Pur Hazara” written on it (Haripur, India/Pakistan). People at train station platform. Jaipur: Well, woman with water jug on her head. Men riding elephants in the street. Camels carrying timber? Monkey. Elephant carrying people. Person with a large bundle on their head. Women working. Street scenes. Man in a garden. Elephant. Train station platform. Udaipur: Monkeys in the street and by the train begging for food. Fountain and gardens. Englishman in the garden (Mr. Moerton?) Women carrying pots on their heads and other street scenes. Women getting water from the river. Wall painting (mural). Portrait of an Indian man in a turban, the secretary to his Highness the Maharana. He gets into a horse-drawn carriage. Rowing across the lake. Elephant statues. Far shot of a herd of animals pigs (15:18) Man pouring water while other men drink it. S.S. Ralaljandi from Bombay to Port Said: On boat playing tennikoit. Cairo: Camels in the desert. Mrs. Chase gets on a camel. Dorothy and Mrs. Chase on camels. Pyramid. Camel turning a millstone. People riding donkeys and camels down the road. Dorothy on a camel. Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara. [End of Reel]

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