Older Darjeeling

Old Darjeeling Photographs

Here are some interesting photographs of Darjeeling earlier in the last century. Some of them were very kindly sent to me by Sally Stewart, an ex-Dow Hill School student, and Susan Eason, great-great grandniece of Carolyn Stahl; others I found stashed away in an old shoe-box, and surprise, surprise, I found some in an old album at a book fair in London that once belonged to an old soldier of World War I!
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King's Birthday Darjeeling Chowrasta 1909	The Chowrasta in about 1905	Chowrasta under snow about 1907 (Stahl Collection)	Passing "Plivas" Commercial Row 1930's
The Chalet, Chowrasta (Lila Engberg's Album)	Eden Sanitorium (Lila Engberg's Album)	Old Darjeeling DHR Station (Lila Engberg's Album)	DHR on Ghoom Loop (Lila Engberg's Album)
Keventers & Planters' Club 1930s	Looking down on Auckland Road	Bird's Eye view of Darjeeling 1930s	Prayer Flags Observatory Hill 1916
Mary Tsarong (Rinchen Dolma Taring) first Tibetan girl to receive a western education See "Daughter of Tibet."	A Tibetan Family (Stahl Collection)	Family on Mountainside (Stahl Collection)	Tibetan Weaver Woman
Begging Lama (Lila Engberg's Album)	Lama with drum (Lila Engberg's Album)	Ornamented Nepalese Woman (Lila Engberg's Album)	Tibetan Devil Dancer (Lila Engberg's Album)
Darjeeling Bazaar 1916	Native lady with baby 1916	Dressed in all their finery 1916	Women in Darjeeling Market 1916
Darjeeling Bazaar 1916	Darjeeling near Ghoom 1916	Toy Train - Sonada Forest	Toy Train Darjeeling Avenue
Tea Sorters	Buddhist Roadside Temple	Vegetable Shop 1930s	Vegetable Seller
Victoria Falls	Victoria Bridge 1916	Tea Picker	Tea Sorter
Tukvar Tea Estate 1916	Tea Planter with Tea Pickers Steinthal Tea Estate 1930s	Ready for the Ride - Rishihaut Tea Estate, 1930s	Bungalow - Rishihaut Tea Estate

Capitol Cinema 1950s	Darjeeling 1920s (Courtesy Sujit Kumar)	Looking across to the Eden San (Courtesy Sujit Kumar)	Darjeeling Railway Station 1920s (Courtesy Sujit Kumar)
Darjeeling from Birch Hill 1920s (Courtesy Sujit Kumar)	The Cart Road (Courtesy Sujit Kumar)	Darjeeling Bazaar 1920s (Courtesy Sujit Kumar)	Queen's Hill School under construction about 1925(Courtesy Sujit Kumar)