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PHOTO OF THE DAY June 26, 2004  

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Where Kandahar, Afghanistan
When 1933
Photographer Maynard Owen Williams

“Main Street of the 'Silk City,' Kandahar: Like many Indian cities, the center of the manufacture of Afghanistan’s small prayer carpets is quartered by two principal streets. They cross under the 'Tower of the Four Highways,' center of the busy bazaars.”

—From “Afghanistan Makes Haste Slowly,” December 1933, National Geographic magazine

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Gallery—Faces of Afghanistan
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