Post Office

This image of an Afghan postal station between Jalalabad and Kabul is from the twentieth century. The post office is mentioned in Chapter 5, but that brief attention belies the importance of the institution during the nineteenth-century period of our concern.

The National Geographic Magazine, January-June 1921, Vol. XXXIX, "Everyday Life In Afghanistan" by Frederick Simpich and "Haji Mirza Hussein." Page 85-110 (page 95 The Post Office Hut).

This image of an Afghan postal station between Jalalabad and Kabul is from the twentieth century. The post office is mentioned in Chapter 5, but that brief attention belies the importance of the institution during the nineteenth-century period of our concern