William Henry Jackson: Varanasi Photographs
18 William Henry Jackson photographs of varanasi, from the Library of Congress archive.
Benares - woman walking; stone steps in background
1895
Benares - three small boys on stone steps
1895
Benares - at the bathing ghats
1895
Benares - women walking on street
1895
Benares - preparing dead bodies for cremation
1895
Benares - the Manikaranika - a holy well
1895
Benares (?) pool
1895
The Holy Man of Benares - Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswathi
1895
Benares - World Transportation commission on river barge
1895
Benares - Hindu Devotee sitting (on burning coals?)
1895
Benares - men sawing wood on the banks of the Ganges
1895
Benares - Desach Wandh Ghat
1895
Benares - courtyard area behind burning ghat
1895
Benares - view along riverfront toward temple
1895
Benares - riverfront
1895
Benares - burning ghat on riverbank
1895
Benares - the well of knowledge with the spires of the…
1895
Benares - interior of a Hindu Temple to Siva, showing…
1895