Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1900's Karachi

1900's Karachi[edit]

**Original** - View of the Bunder Road (now M. A. Jinnah Rd.) The Max Denso Hall (completed 1886) can be seen in this picture. Karachi, Sind, Pakistan. This road has transformed dramatically over the decades.

Reason: This is a picture of Bunder Road (now MA Jinnah Road) in Karachi. Pre-1947 images of areas which now make up Pakistan are extremely rare, especially images of public areas. This is an image that most Pakistanis have never seen. I believe that this picture adds significantly to the History of Karachi article, as anyone connected with Karachi would find the image very interesting and would therefore be inclined to read, and perhaps expand, the accompanying article. The image is from the year 1900.
Articles this image appears in: History of Karachi
Creator: I. Sequeira

Support as nominator --Za indy^٨٧ 16:15, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose partly for the quality and below-requirements resolution, partly because I'm not seeing great EV. I think we can make exceptions to technical requirements when the subject has great historical value, but in this case, the subject appears to be a fairly mundane street setting. The historical value lies in the fact that images from this era and location are rare (according to the nom), but I'm not sure the rarity of the class of image (as opposed to the subject) is as strong a reason for disregarding technical requirements. (I'm sure people will tell me if that makes no sense!) Fletcher (talk) 03:14, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'll take objection with the "lacking EV" claim: I can see various different traditional head dresses, and two variations of the traditional men's dress. Several different vehicles are represented - an ox cart (twice afaik, although I couldn't swear that the one further back is drawn by an ox) and a hand cart. They seem to be roughly the same build, so may be being used with both draught "animals". Colonial buildings are in the background, apparently supplied by electricity carried by the telegraph poles (for lack of a better word). An open tram stands out along with a woman carrying two huge boxes on her head. The image description also identifies one of the buildings as the Max Denso Hall, although I can't fully guess which building that is. The last thing I'm curious about is the road surface in the foreground - is it bare ground or tarmac? The fact that some of it is cobstones suggests the rest might also be fortified in some way. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 08:26, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support The resolution IS a problem, but the encyclopedic value is at least as high or higher as some American street photographs of the period we have featured, while being far rarer. As the EV is high, and photographs of this time period from outside the west so rare, I'm supporting. However, it could use more dissemination into appropriate articles, though. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 18:27, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment shouldn't that watermark be removed? Diego_pmc ^Talk 08:19, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 05:09, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]