"Through the Ages"

1962 Image
" AFP "

1962 In the 1960s and '70s, Afghanistan was a typical developing country,poor and struggling, with a slowly expanding role for women. By 1964 they hadbeen granted the vote. Western-style clothes were not uncommon in Kabul in 1962,when this photo was taken, though the head-to-toe-burka was ever present

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